nursemaid

Example Sentences

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Agnes’ mother never bonded with her daughter and showed her little attention except to object to her daughter’s clear intelligence and closeness with her nursemaid.

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 17, 2025

She’d been working since she was 11 years old, first as a nursemaid during summer breaks, then as a cook for wealthier families.

From Scientific American • Oct. 26, 2023

In the 1830s, in a young nation eager to connect to the past, Barnum toured with Joice Heth, an enslaved woman who claimed to be 161 years old and the former nursemaid to George Washington.

From Washington Post • Oct. 18, 2019

Congenitally unable to assume the role of nursemaid administering consolation, Mr. Koch barreled through with a customary orneriness that left him offending one important constituency after another.

From New York Times • May 22, 2015

In fact, he’d been getting tired of the assignments, of playing nursemaid for Archie and his trigger man as well.

From "The Chocolate War" by Robert Cormier