How to Use washerwoman in a Sentence

washerwoman

noun

• He had been forced to leave school in the sixth grade to help support his single mother, who worked as a washerwoman and cleaner.
  — Néstor Martí, Smithsonian, 18 Apr. 2018
• He was born in 1805 to a mother who worked as a washerwoman in Odense.
  — Livia Gershon, Smithsonian Magazine, 2 Mar. 2021
• My mother was a washerwoman, and my father was a construction painter.
  — Beatriz Miranda, refinery29.com, 19 Apr. 2022
• Boise’s hardworking washerwoman Betty finds her match in this cherub-faced artist.
  — Nicole Blanchard, idahostatesman, 15 Jan. 2018
• Each morning, Watson wakes from his spot on the floor to clean the house for his washerwoman employer before taking to the streets to sell water.
  — Washington Post, 5 June 2017
• The elder Walker toiled away as a washerwoman, determined not to let her daughter suffer the same cruelties of her impoverished childhood.
  — Mayukh Sen, Bon Appétit, 14 Oct. 2021
• The live model for the washerwoman and the standing woman was Sharifa Rhodes-Pitts, a writer and teacher who is one of Leigh’s closest friends.
  — The New Yorker, 21 Mar. 2022
• Clark assigned men who had been fighting the job of building the washerwoman’s lodging, effectively forcing them to work together, communicate and cooperate.
  — Gary Garth, USA TODAY, 30 Sep. 2017
• Not some fed up Thuringian washerwoman hocking loogies at the parish priest, but an individual who has been so gripped by an enfolding ideology that the boundary between possessor and possessed is erased.
  — Kent Russell, Harper’s Magazine , 25 May 2022
• For instance, the scan reveals that the first draft of the canvas included a woman with her back to the viewer, likely a nod to the artist Honoré Daumier’s paintings of washerwomen in Paris.
  — Jason Daley, Smithsonian, 11 June 2018
• The Wegners offered free lasagna for anyone who found and returned Betty’s stuff, and the banner and plastic bubbles have been reunited with the washerwoman and the Wegners.
  — Anna Webb, idahostatesman, 13 June 2017
• The limited series follows Walker from a balding, struggling washerwoman who was knocked down by racial and gender biases to her rise as an astute businesswoman and fierce activist with fabulous hair and a thriving company.
  — Carly Mallenbaum, USA TODAY, 20 Mar. 2020
• After Hulett spoke just 10 minutes at the start of the case and another 15 minutes during closing arguments, the jury of six men disappeared for just two minutes before returning with a verdict for the washerwoman.
  — Kori Rumore, Chicago Tribune, 4 June 2026
• This moving exhibition spotlights the largely untold stories of Miami's early Black washerwomen—women whose labor shaped the city's domestic and economic foundations.
  — Cbs Miami Team, CBS News, 1 Dec. 2025
• The movie follows Walker, played by Octavia Spencer, from a balding, struggling washerwoman who was knocked down by racial and gender biases to her rise as an astute businesswoman and fierce activist with fabulous hair and a thriving company.
  — Rasha Ali, USA TODAY, 1 Mar. 2023
• Two Residents, Five Servants When the house was completed in 1909, the house had two bedrooms for its owners, as well as staff bedrooms for chauffeur, upstairs maid, downstairs maid, butler, and washerwoman.
  — James Tarmy, Bloomberg.com, 25 July 2017