housekeeper

Example Sentences

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Items from Phyllis Rice, the former housekeeper of Christie's holiday home Greenway House in Devon, will go under the hammer at Wessex Auction Rooms in Chippenham, Wiltshire, on Friday.

From BBC • Feb. 19, 2026

Whereas Brontë writes Nelly as a largely passive narrator, Fennell abandons the frame narrative structure altogether and instead fashions the housekeeper into a complex character with significant control over Cathy’s life.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 13, 2026

Her manic energy is offset by the two people to whom she is closest: her fragile 6-year-old cousin, John Henry, and Berenice, the family’s wise black housekeeper.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 23, 2026

Maybe the housekeeper, a plant of the obsessed doctor’s, did it?

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 20, 2026

The housekeeper showed no sign of exasperation at our lateness.

From "The Shakespeare Stealer" by Gary L. Blackwood