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Recent Examples of housemaid 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 Marsh’s mother had worked as a housemaid, and Atkins’ father had been an under-butler. Victoria Edel, People.com, 13 Apr. 2025 See All Example Sentences for housemaid
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Noun
  • Their three children's longtime nanny, Maria Turrion Borrallo, and housekeepers will likely stay in smaller properties nearby.
    Stephanie Petit, PEOPLE, 1 Oct. 2025
  • In one case, a hospital employee worked her way up from housekeeper to registrar to quality analyst.
    Rae Ellen Bichell, Fortune, 29 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • The hit series also starred Ethan Suplee as Earl's younger brother Randy Hickey, Jaime Pressly as Earl's ex-wife Joy Turner, Nadine Velazquez as the motel maid Catalina Aruca and Eddie Steeples as Joy's second husband Darnell Turner.
    Caroline Blair, PEOPLE, 20 Sep. 2025
  • One of her central, lifelong relationships was with a Moroccan woman named Cherifa, who became her maid and, after Jane suffered a stroke, was accused by Paul and their friends of casting a love spell that had gone violently wrong.
    Nicole Flattery, Harpers Magazine, 19 Sep. 2025

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