How to Use housekeeper in a Sentence

housekeeper

noun
  • Frank's housekeeper placed him at home at the time of the murder.
    Town & Country, 22 Feb. 2023
  • The star who greets housekeepers by name and dances with them in the hallways.
    Leila Cobo, Billboard, 15 Aug. 2024
  • The pool man and the gardener each came two days a week; the housekeeper, four.
    Alan Judd, ajc, 13 June 2022
  • His mom was a housekeeper for a while, and as a boy, Dominguez went on jobs with her, too.
    Los Angeles Times, 13 Apr. 2022
  • Brown’s lawyer had challenged six of the nine claims filed by the housekeeper and her husband in July 2021.
    Nancy Dillon, Rolling Stone, 14 Dec. 2023
  • Doris worked as a housekeeper, then a nurse's aid, struggling to provide for the children.
    jsonline.com, 20 Apr. 2022
  • After the war, Briscoe, on the other hand, still had his estate, a chauffeur, and a housekeeper.
    Adam Entous, The New Yorker, 15 Aug. 2022
  • Uli said that where hotel housekeepers may spend half an hour on a room, her cleanups take four or five hours in the campers and six hours in the cottage.
    Lawrence Specker | Lspecker@al.com, al, 27 July 2023
  • The wavy coif and puffy jowls of the father disguised as a matronly housekeeper.
    Madalyn Amato, Los Angeles Times, 28 June 2022
  • She’s been a housekeeper there for 38 years and counting, but retirement is out of reach at the moment.
    Steve Lopez, Los Angeles Times, 15 July 2023
  • The family's housekeeper was stunned to find the remains of North's prank when Kim took the children to school the next day and instantly thought the worst.
    Jasmine Washington, Seventeen, 12 July 2022
  • The answer, in fact, is his housekeeper, Paula Fichtl, who tended to Freud’s treasures for some fifty years.
    Elizabeth Winkler, The New Yorker, 23 June 2023
  • The husband's dead wife looms large, and the creepy housekeeper Mrs. Danvers may be one of the most memorable villains of all time.
    The Week Staff, The Week, 14 Nov. 2022
  • And for housekeepers, there was also more work to do than in their previous jobs.
    Katie Johnston, BostonGlobe.com, 29 June 2023
  • His parents have gone to Europe for three months, leaving him in the care of the mostly absent housekeeper.
    Christine Smallwood, The New York Review of Books, 16 Mar. 2023
  • Barraza has been known to empty bedpans when the housekeeper is too busy.
    New York Times, 15 Feb. 2022
  • Bly was born and raised in Montgomery; her mother was a housekeeper and her father a gravedigger.
    New York Times, 8 June 2022
  • Medina is the husband of the bishop’s housekeeper, and had done some work around the bishop’s house, Luna said.
    Cheri Mossburg, CNN, 20 Feb. 2023
  • The housekeeper and grounds people are also happy to stay on with the future owner.
    Emmamreynolds1, Robb Report, 14 July 2022
  • The body of Nelson Antônio da Conceição, the farm housekeeper who had disappeared, had lain in this ditch for days.
    Washington Post, 17 Mar. 2022
  • According to a 1991 report from The New York Times, a window was left open after it was cleaned by a housekeeper.
    Emma Kershaw, Peoplemag, 2 June 2024
  • The housekeeper who fell ill was taken to the hospital and is expected to survive.
    Jon Haworth, ABC News, 30 Nov. 2022
  • Molly is a truly sweet and sheltered 25-year-old who loves her job as a hotel housekeeper.
    ELLE, 23 Dec. 2022
  • His wife, Hosun, along with just about everyone else, urged Kim to go back to work for his father and live the well-to-do life of housekeepers and chauffeurs.
    Cheryl Hall, Dallas News, 29 Apr. 2023
  • On the show, Tony is an ex-baseball player and widower who moves with Samantha to Brooklyn to take a job as a live-in housekeeper.
    Esme Mazzeo, Peoplemag, 25 Feb. 2024
  • Testorf—a housekeeper, nurse, and cook who was said to have met Wyeth through his sister—captivated the public.
    Hillary Kelly, The New Yorker, 25 Aug. 2022
  • In 2011, someone fired a rifle at the White House and the Secret Service learned of it only four days later, when a housekeeper found the damage.
    Heather Wilhelm, National Review, 25 July 2024
  • Thanks to his housekeeper, Khalil Soussa is cleaning up!
    Anna Lazarus Caplan, Peoplemag, 24 Oct. 2023
  • Set in the early '70s, the black-and-white movie follows the life of a live-in housekeeper taking care of a middle-class family in Mexico City.
    Selena Barrientos, Good Housekeeping, 22 July 2022
  • After that finding, the company, which works in 48 states, agreed in negotiations with the housekeeper to pay her monetary damages, the commission said Wednesday.
    Ethan Baron, The Mercury News, 26 June 2024

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