How to Use nanny in a Sentence

nanny

noun
  • When I was growing up, I had a nanny.
  • And just a week ago, a young Paraguayan arrived to work as a nanny.
    Regina Garcia Cano, sun-sentinel.com, 26 June 2021
  • From [ages] one to three, I was raised by my nanny in New York.
    Lily Moayeri, Spin, 11 Sep. 2023
  • John dulls himself with quaaludes and sleeps with the nanny.
    Michael Schulman, The New Yorker, 15 Apr. 2024
  • Preti paid around that cost for her son's care and one-and-a-half times the rate if the nanny worked more than 40 hours.
    Madison Medeiros, Parents, 3 Dec. 2023
  • My nanny took some of the smaller socks Noah had grown out of and cut them in half.
    Jihan Forbes, Allure, 21 Jan. 2022
  • The bills don’t stop when the need for daycare, nannies, and babysitters ends.
    Beth Ann Mayer, Parents, 29 Feb. 2024
  • Meets Lennon’s 5-year-old son, Sean, with his nanny and shakes hands with him.
    Cnn Editorial Research, CNN, 28 Apr. 2021
  • His wife went to work on a Friday, came home and dropped their nanny about 6:30 p.m.
    Michelle Boorstein, Washington Post, 11 Sep. 2023
  • Mom and Dad weren’t very present and I was taught gin rummy by a nanny.
    Remy Blumenfeld, The Hollywood Reporter, 18 May 2024
  • The nannies work full-time or part-time and earn the minimum wage of about $7 an hour.
    Max Kim, Los Angeles Times, 23 Oct. 2024
  • The 24-year-old had moved to Alaska the year prior and was working as a nanny.
    Dateline Nbc, NBC News, 6 Dec. 2022
  • The problem is her parents have nanny cams aimed at the crib and the living room.
    Meghan Leahy, Washington Post, 31 July 2024
  • Their directive: two nannies on the corner of the street.
    WIRED, 1 Nov. 2023
  • My young children were right next door with a live-in nanny.
    Dede Henley, Forbes, 20 June 2021
  • The nannies are the only ones paying attention to the world around them.
    The Editors, Vulture, 25 Aug. 2023
  • Then Dave loads the older four in the car for the school run, and the nanny comes to help with Luke while Jenny gets camera-ready.
    Christine Lennon, Better Homes & Gardens, 1 Mar. 2023
  • The nanny who Rumpel said was also on the plane has not been identified.
    Pete Muntean, CNN, 6 June 2023
  • His father now works as a painter and his mother is a nanny.
    Ethan Fuller, BostonGlobe.com, 26 May 2023
  • With the cast gathered around him, Short sets up a scene in which the show’s star triplets are crying in the night as their nanny soothes them.
    Rania Aniftos, Billboard, 16 Aug. 2023
  • Her father was a rigger for the Navy, and her mother was a nanny.
    Emily Langer, Washington Post, 27 June 2024
  • Kimes stayed on as the Lentzes’ nanny for some time afterward.
    Ashley Fetters Maloy, Washington Post, 16 May 2023
  • On the way to London to work as a nanny for a family friend, visits Paris for the first time.
    Laird Borrelli-Persson, Vogue, 1 July 2022
  • That nanny, Leanne, managed to bring Jericho back to life for the Turners.
    Benjamin Vanhoose, Peoplemag, 17 Mar. 2023
  • Diana moved to London at age 18 and worked as a nanny and at a kindergarten.
    Lilit Marcus, CNN, 29 Sep. 2021
  • Goldstein, a doula, was a nanny for Gal and Maya Weinstock, who agreed to host the event at their home.
    Ray Sanchez, CNN, 30 Apr. 2022
  • Toddlers wobble about the play area with their moms (or nannies).
    Rachel Brodsky, Rolling Stone, 18 Oct. 2024
  • His fifth wife, Friede Springer, had been the family’s nanny.
    New York Times, 17 Oct. 2021
  • In the Pacific Palisades, housekeepers and nannies whose employers paid their mortgages need new jobs.
    Sammy Roth, Los Angeles Times, 23 Jan. 2025
  • The two became friendly and Palmer occasionally asked Pavlovich to babysit, eventually offering her a job as a live-in nanny in both her and Gaiman’s houses on the island of Waiheke.
    Lila Shapiro, Vulture, 3 Feb. 2025

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