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Recent Examples of housemaid Based on the novel by Freida McFadden, The Housemaid follows Millie as she’s hired by Nina to serve as a live-in housemaid. Larisha Paul, Rolling Stone, 16 Sep. 2025 In this film adaptation of Freida McFadden’s best-selling psychological thriller, Sweeney plays a down-on-her-luck woman with a spotty past who lands a job as a live-in housemaid for a married couple (Seyfried and Sklenar), who have some secrets of their own. Tolly Wright, Vulture, 8 Sep. 2025 Fed up with her racist employer, Hilly (Bryce Dallas Howard), in the Jim Crow-era south, Black housemaid Minny (Spencer) serves her tormenter the seemingly tasty treat. Alison Foreman, IndieWire, 21 Aug. 2025 Kennedy Tolson is the sly queen of side-eye as the disobedient new housemaid Nancy. Pam Kragen, San Diego Union-Tribune, 16 Aug. 2025 See All Example Sentences for housemaid
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Noun
  • The sun looms on Moselle as viewers find Maggie and the family’s beloved and long-time housekeeper, Gloria (Kathleen Wilhoite), preparing a soiree in celebration of Alex’s father, Randolph (Gerald McRaney).
    Aramide Tinubu, Variety, 15 Oct. 2025
  • The couple's staff like the children's nanny, Maria Turrion Borrallo, who has been with the family since George was a baby, and the housekeepers are expected to live on other smaller properties on the estate.
    Simon Perry, PEOPLE, 14 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • Though her identity is not at first known to Benedict, the woman turns out to be Sophie Baek, a secretive maid with big dreams.
    Ryan Schwartz, TVLine, 13 Oct. 2025
  • Made at the height of her fame, this attempt at more dramatic material – the Jekyll-and-Hyde tale told from the perspective of the good doctor’s Irish maid, who begins to discover his secret — almost killed Roberts’s career.
    Bilge Ebiri, Vulture, 10 Oct. 2025

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