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 worked incognito in jobs around the country at the bottom end of the pay scale: waitress, hotel maid, cleaning woman, a Walmart clerk, averaging about $7 an hour.

From Washington Post • Sep. 2, 2022

“I wanted to pay tribute to the nurses and doctors who did such an amazing job during the pandemic and were so overworked. I actually start the song with my own cleaning woman, Rosa.”

From New York Times • Feb. 28, 2022

In "The Anatomy Lesson," we meet a cleaning woman, Olivia, described as "a small, bottom-heavy, earthbound stranger, the color of bittersweet chocolate."

From Salon • Feb. 7, 2021

During the writing the cleaning woman came in to say that she was going off, for her morning work wTas finished.

From "The Metamorphosis" by Franz Kafka