How to Use housekeeper in a Sentence

housekeeper

noun
  • Frank's housekeeper placed him at home at the time of the murder.
    Town & Country, 22 Feb. 2023
  • Brown’s lawyer had challenged six of the nine claims filed by the housekeeper and her husband in July 2021.
    Nancy Dillon, Rolling Stone, 14 Dec. 2023
  • Uli said that where hotel housekeepers may spend half an hour on a room, her cleanups take four or five hours in the campers and six hours in the cottage.
    Lawrence Specker | Lspecker@al.com, al, 27 July 2023
  • She’s been a housekeeper there for 38 years and counting, but retirement is out of reach at the moment.
    Steve Lopez, Los Angeles Times, 15 July 2023
  • The answer, in fact, is his housekeeper, Paula Fichtl, who tended to Freud’s treasures for some fifty years.
    Elizabeth Winkler, The New Yorker, 23 June 2023
  • The husband's dead wife looms large, and the creepy housekeeper Mrs. Danvers may be one of the most memorable villains of all time.
    The Week Staff, The Week, 14 Nov. 2022
  • And for housekeepers, there was also more work to do than in their previous jobs.
    Katie Johnston, BostonGlobe.com, 29 June 2023
  • His parents have gone to Europe for three months, leaving him in the care of the mostly absent housekeeper.
    Christine Smallwood, The New York Review of Books, 16 Mar. 2023
  • Medina is the husband of the bishop’s housekeeper, and had done some work around the bishop’s house, Luna said.
    Cheri Mossburg, CNN, 20 Feb. 2023
  • The housekeeper who fell ill was taken to the hospital and is expected to survive.
    Jon Haworth, ABC News, 30 Nov. 2022
  • Molly is a truly sweet and sheltered 25-year-old who loves her job as a hotel housekeeper.
    ELLE, 23 Dec. 2022
  • His wife, Hosun, along with just about everyone else, urged Kim to go back to work for his father and live the well-to-do life of housekeepers and chauffeurs.
    Cheryl Hall, Dallas News, 29 Apr. 2023
  • On the show, Tony is an ex-baseball player and widower who moves with Samantha to Brooklyn to take a job as a live-in housekeeper.
    Esme Mazzeo, Peoplemag, 25 Feb. 2024
  • Thanks to his housekeeper, Khalil Soussa is cleaning up!
    Anna Lazarus Caplan, Peoplemag, 24 Oct. 2023
  • Ronnie Richter: Gloria was the housekeeper for the Murdaugh family for more than 20 years.
    CBS News, 4 Mar. 2023
  • Devolder was described by the Times as having worked as a housekeeper.
    Timothy Bella, Anchorage Daily News, 29 Dec. 2022
  • Then there is the death of the Murdaugh’s housekeeper — and the insurance fraud prosecutors say followed.
    Bill Goodykoontz, The Arizona Republic, 28 Feb. 2023
  • This is not the idealistic son of a housekeeper from Guatemala who accomplished so much in his career.
    Gustavo Arellano, Los Angeles Times, 20 Oct. 2022
  • Authorities also launched a fresh probe into the 2018 death of the Murdaugh’s long time housekeeper.
    Fox News, 14 Nov. 2022
  • Medina’s wife is the bishop’s housekeeper, the sheriff said.
    Taylor Romine, CNN, 21 Feb. 2023
  • One of those clients was the family of his late housekeeper, Gloria Satterfield.
    Stacey Grant, Seventeen, 26 Feb. 2023
  • Brayden had wanted to buy the Game of Life for the longest time, but his parents had been busy working, his mom as a hotel housekeeper and his dad in a kitchen prepping food.
    Brittny Mejia, Los Angeles Times, 24 Nov. 2022
  • Food service workers and housekeepers will also be on strike.
    Emily Alpert Reyes, Los Angeles Times, 3 Oct. 2023
  • Curtis Keith, a housekeeper, and Melvin Lewis Curtis, a truck driver.
    Sam Roberts, New York Times, 10 Nov. 2022
  • His father was a laborer, his mother a housekeeper, who worried most of all for his safety.
    Dallas News, 13 Jan. 2023
  • Padilla and his two siblings were raised in Pacoima by their immigrant parents, a short-order line cook and a housekeeper.
    Seema Mehta, Los Angeles Times, 8 Nov. 2022
  • The scientists also hired them for babysitters and housekeepers.
    Emma Specter, Vogue, 22 July 2023
  • The suspect, Carlos Medina, is the husband of O’Connell’s housekeeper.
    Stefanie Dazio, ajc, 23 Feb. 2023
  • Ana Vera, 44, a housekeeper in Quito, the capital, said the escalating violence had turned her into a bit of a recluse.
    José María León Cabrera, New York Times, 17 Aug. 2023
  • The housekeeper at her former classmate’s house, played winningly by Yum Hye-ran, agrees to look the other way when Dong-eun is discovered rifling through their garbage.
    Joan MacDonald, Forbes, 1 Jan. 2023

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