cleaning woman

Example Sentences

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How did “The Shape of Water,” a movie about a mute cleaning woman falling truly, madly, deeply in love with a fish-man, wind up winning the Oscar for best picture?

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 25, 2023

She was a cleaning woman at Duke University and she was of that generation of Black Americans whose occupation all too often belied both their ambition and their abilities.

From Washington Post • Jan. 19, 2022

I was working as a cleaning woman in the library during the day and doing underground theater in the evening.

From New York Times • Aug. 3, 2021

This is evident as he harangues Wondrous, the cleaning woman who works in his wife's Greenwich Village townhouse.

From Salon • Feb. 7, 2021

However, once the cleaning woman had left the door to the living room slightly ajar, and it remained open even when the lodgers came in in the evening and the lights were put on.

From "The Metamorphosis" by Franz Kafka