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
• Katharine McPhee was always a nanny who played by the rules.
  — Patrick Ryan, USA TODAY, 19 Mar. 2021
• 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
• Also, one of their four cats is named Paolo, and one of their two nannies is named Paola.
  — Rebecca Alter, Vulture, 20 Feb. 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

Last Updated: 11 Mar 2025