maids

plural of maid

Example Sentences

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Recent Examples of maids Elsewhere in the castle, Malcolm’s sister, Maura Grant, comes across Dougal shtupping one of her maids up against a wall. Kimberly Roots, TVLine, 10 Oct. 2025 As such, the race is on to get these budding butlers, maids, and models into the workforce. Charlie Campbell, Time, 9 Oct. 2025 But the tax benefit will also extend to gambling dealers, clowns, DJs, entertainers, content creators, maids, electricians, plumbers, babysitters, drivers and more. Rachel Barber, USA Today, 19 Sep. 2025 Chastain portrayed Celia Foote in the drama based on Kathryn Stockett's novel of the same name about a white journalist chronicling the lives of Black maids working for white households in 1960s Mississippi. Raechal Shewfelt, Entertainment Weekly, 5 Sep. 2025 Her mother was a nurse, her aunts and distant cousins all nurses and maids and cleaners scattered everywhere from Jeddah to Singapore to Rome. Literary Hub, 6 Aug. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for maids
Noun
  • 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
  • Many of our neighbors have housekeepers, gardeners, carpenters, etc.
    Judith Martin, Mercury News, 14 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • Digs from the Grave Surrounded by so many beautiful young girls in Epstein’s orbit was difficult for Maxwell, Giuffre claimed in the book.
    KC Baker, PEOPLE, 21 Oct. 2025
  • Two days later and nearly 400 miles to the west, good Samaritans found two baby girls crying on the dirty floor of a park restroom in the working-class coastal California city of Oxnard.
    Amanda Lee Myers, USA Today, 21 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • This is a 1,000 year old tradition where two maidens are chosen to be slaughtered as repentance to one of their goddesses.
    Jesse Whittock, Deadline, 7 Aug. 2025
  • Prized 2-year-olds trained by Bob Baffert ran an impressive 1-2 in their debuts in Sunday’s opening race, a six-furlong test for maidens.
    Bill Center, San Diego Union-Tribune, 4 Aug. 2025

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“Maids.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/maids. Accessed 29 Oct. 2025.

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