Examples of cleaning lady in a Sentence
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The Full Cast Sally Field plays the widow, a cleaning lady at the aquarium where Marcellus is housed.
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Hanna Wickes, Charlotte Observer, 11 Mar. 2026
The narrator is not actually human, but rather a giant Pacific octopus named Marcellus who forms an unlikely bond with the cleaning lady at the aquarium where he is housed.
—Hanna Wickes, Miami Herald, 11 Mar. 2026
The widow — the cleaning lady at the aquarium where Marcellus is housed — will be played by Sally Field.
—Hanna Wickes, Kansas City Star, 11 Mar. 2026
And the office cleaning lady—a citizen—was telling me the Mexican grocery store was closed.
—Literary Hub, 4 Feb. 2026
Her mother was a cleaning lady.
—Azar Nafisi, Time, 3 Feb. 2026
In a scene based on a real incident that crystallized some of the public’s reaction to Bardot at the time, a cleaning lady lashes out at the star’s character in an elevator, angry over her promiscuity while the maid’s brother is fighting in the Algerian War.
—Lee Smith, CNN Money, 28 Dec. 2025
One day a friend informed me that her cleaning lady had been duped into transferring Rs 25,000 ($284) to a scammer’s account with the false promise of a Rs 25 lakh ($28,470) lottery win.
—Snigdha Poonam, The Dial, 28 Oct. 2025
For example, there was a cleaning lady.
—Georg Szalai, HollywoodReporter, 20 Aug. 2025
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Hanna Wickes, Charlotte Observer, 11 Mar. 2026
The narrator is not actually human, but rather a giant Pacific octopus named Marcellus who forms an unlikely bond with the cleaning lady at the aquarium where he is housed.
—Hanna Wickes, Miami Herald, 11 Mar. 2026
The widow — the cleaning lady at the aquarium where Marcellus is housed — will be played by Sally Field.
—Hanna Wickes, Kansas City Star, 11 Mar. 2026
And the office cleaning lady—a citizen—was telling me the Mexican grocery store was closed.
—Literary Hub, 4 Feb. 2026
Her mother was a cleaning lady.
—Azar Nafisi, Time, 3 Feb. 2026
In a scene based on a real incident that crystallized some of the public’s reaction to Bardot at the time, a cleaning lady lashes out at the star’s character in an elevator, angry over her promiscuity while the maid’s brother is fighting in the Algerian War.
—Lee Smith, CNN Money, 28 Dec. 2025
One day a friend informed me that her cleaning lady had been duped into transferring Rs 25,000 ($284) to a scammer’s account with the false promise of a Rs 25 lakh ($28,470) lottery win.
—Snigdha Poonam, The Dial, 28 Oct. 2025
For example, there was a cleaning lady.
—Georg Szalai, HollywoodReporter, 20 Aug. 2025
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“Cleaning lady.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/cleaning%20lady. Accessed 24 Mar. 2026.
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