How to Use laundress in a Sentence

laundress

noun

• His father was a roofer, and his mother was a laundress.
  — Terence McArdle, Washington Post, 22 Feb. 2023
• The backyard is scattered with dozens of buttons, remnants of Maria Maynard’s time as a laundress.
  — Washington Post, 7 May 2021
• Though born a free woman in 1867, she was orphaned at the age of seven and grew up as a domestic servant and laundress.
  — Andy Audate, Forbes, 10 May 2021
• Johnson was raised by his mother, a laundress, after his father, a minister of the gospel, was murdered in the 1860s.
  — Dave Lieber, Dallas News, 11 Feb. 2021
• Cecil was a clergyman and his sister, Linnie, was a laundress in a private home.
  — The Root, 8 Dec. 2017
• Before long, the arrests spread from the tenants to their nannies, guards, laundresses, and stairwell cleaners.
  — Michelle Weber, Longreads, 13 Oct. 2017
• Her father was later a caretaker and her mother a laundress and the owner of a boardinghouse.
  — David Stout, New York Times, 28 Nov. 2021
• As the exhibition indicates, the artist created many of his city scenes, like the image of the laundress, by looking down from a balcony.
  — Steven Litt, cleveland, 4 July 2021
• Catherine Lynch, an Irish immigrant and laundress, moved to Elm Street around 1870 when the house was divided into apartments.
  — John Kelly, Washington Post, 28 Nov. 2020
• Milda, her mother, took care of other people’s children and was a laundress in a hospital.
  — Calvin Tomkins, The New Yorker, 26 Aug. 2019
• Her mother, Eva Renfrow, worked as a laundress to support their family while her father, Lee Renfrow, worked as a cook.
  — Claretta Bellamy, NBC News, 3 Feb. 2023
• There are a chef, a housekeeper, and a laundress, and two housemen/waiters; Basso's group also had a captained boat at their disposal day and night.
  — Lauren Lipton, Town & Country, 13 Mar. 2015
• Pervis’s mother, Oceola (Ware) Staples, worked as a maid and laundress at a hotel.
  — New York Times, 14 May 2021
• From the 1850s onward, the artist was enthralled by the Parisian laundress—a working-class woman frequently seen washing and ironing goods and transferring heavy baskets in the bustling city streets.
  — Stephanie Sporn, Vogue, 18 Aug. 2023
• The residence comes with a dedicated staff of six: a butler, a chef, a laundress, two gardeners, and two housekeepers.
  — Dobrina Zhekova, Travel + Leisure, 20 Mar. 2024
• In New York City, the press has documented the rise of private kitchen staff, rotating teams of nannies, and in-home laundresses who will devote half an hour to ironing a single shirt.
  — Evan Osnos, The New Yorker, 22 Jan. 2024
• As told in this compelling stage story, young Freda Josephine was made to leave her family's home at age 8 when her mother, who worked as a laundress, arranged for to work as a live-in maid for wealthy family.
  — Philip Potempa, Post-Tribune, 30 May 2017
• His father was a public accountant and his mother a cook or laundress, depending on the account, but for murky reasons they were gone from his life in early childhood.
  — Randal C. Archibold, New York Times, 30 May 2017
• Kelley looks at the history of her own working-class ancestors, as well as the laundresses, Pullman porters, domestic maids, and postal workers who made up the world of Black labor.
  — Ibram X. Kendi, The Atlantic, 7 Aug. 2023
• Her family had emigrated from Belgium to one of the poorest neighborhoods of Montmartre, where her mother worked as a laundress and her father a tailor.
  — Moira Hodgson, WSJ, 16 Nov. 2018
• When the war ended, most of those women, who had served as pilots, snipers, mine-detectors, nurses, cooks, and laundresses, quietly went home and resumed everyday life.
  — Bob Blaisdell, The Christian Science Monitor, 25 July 2017
• During the Franco-Prussian War, a young French laundress shares a coach ride with several of her condescending social superiors.
  — Los Angeles Times, 4 Oct. 2019
• But the family still depended on relief, even as his mother, Lillian Isabelle (Brown) Jones, held a series of low-paying jobs: housemaid, laundress, ladies’ restroom attendant in a theater.
  — Sam Roberts, BostonGlobe.com, 5 Feb. 2020
• While the former laundress was elbowing her way through the medieval patriarchy, a young man named Raymond of Campagno was similarly rising in the king’s estimation.
  — Anne Thériault, Longreads, 3 July 2018
• Born in Searchlight, Nevada, to an alcoholic father who killed himself at 58 and a mother who served as a laundress in a bordello, Reid grew up in a small cabin without indoor plumbing and swam with other children at a pool at a local brothel.
  — Marisa Schultz, Fox News, 9 Jan. 2022

Last Updated: 25 Sep 2024