How to Use nanny in a Sentence
nanny
noun- When I was growing up, I had a nanny.
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Who will stay at home with the kids in our nanny state?
—Phillip Molnar, San Diego Union-Tribune, 28 Aug. 2020
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And just a week ago, a young Paraguayan arrived to work as a nanny.
—Regina Garcia Cano, orlandosentinel.com, 26 June 2021
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And just a week ago, a young Paraguayan arrived to work as a nanny.
—Regina Garcia Cano, sun-sentinel.com, 26 June 2021
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From [ages] one to three, I was raised by my nanny in New York.
—Lily Moayeri, Spin, 11 Sep. 2023
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John dulls himself with quaaludes and sleeps with the nanny.
—Michael Schulman, The New Yorker, 15 Apr. 2024
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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
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My nanny took some of the smaller socks Noah had grown out of and cut them in half.
—Jihan Forbes, Allure, 21 Jan. 2022
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The bills don’t stop when the need for daycare, nannies, and babysitters ends.
—Beth Ann Mayer, Parents, 29 Feb. 2024
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Katharine McPhee was always a nanny who played by the rules.
—Patrick Ryan, USA TODAY, 19 Mar. 2021
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Meets Lennon’s 5-year-old son, Sean, with his nanny and shakes hands with him.
—Cnn Editorial Research, CNN, 28 Apr. 2021
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The couple have relied on the help of a nanny since their first child was born.
—Melissa Fletcher Stoeltje, ExpressNews.com, 9 Aug. 2020
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Most guests were white, except for the nannies, of whom there seemed to be one per child.
—Sangeeta Singh-Kurtz, Vulture, 4 Mar. 2025
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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
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Mom and Dad weren’t very present and I was taught gin rummy by a nanny.
—Remy Blumenfeld, The Hollywood Reporter, 18 May 2024
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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
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The 24-year-old had moved to Alaska the year prior and was working as a nanny.
—Dateline Nbc, NBC News, 6 Dec. 2022
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The problem is her parents have nanny cams aimed at the crib and the living room.
—Meghan Leahy, Washington Post, 31 July 2024
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Their directive: two nannies on the corner of the street.
—WIRED, 1 Nov. 2023
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My young children were right next door with a live-in nanny.
—Dede Henley, Forbes, 20 June 2021
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The nannies are the only ones paying attention to the world around them.
—The Editors, Vulture, 25 Aug. 2023
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Her husband works from home with her son and their nanny.
—Janet Weinstein, ABC News, 3 Mar. 2021
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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
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The nanny who Rumpel said was also on the plane has not been identified.
—Pete Muntean, CNN, 6 June 2023
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His father now works as a painter and his mother is a nanny.
—Ethan Fuller, BostonGlobe.com, 26 May 2023
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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
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The family relies on a nanny, who’s in her 60s, but asked her to stay home the first few months.
—Hallie Miller, baltimoresun.com, 3 Dec. 2020
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Her father was a rigger for the Navy, and her mother was a nanny.
—Emily Langer, Washington Post, 27 June 2024
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In an effort to impress her daughter — and one-up her daughter’s nanny — Davis decided to jump.
—Ryan Brennan, Miami Herald, 11 Apr. 2025
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The movie — which follows a father who poses as a nanny to spend time with his children — is almost as enduring as Lawrence's friendship with the film's iconic star.
—Sabienna Bowman, People.com, 18 Apr. 2025
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