cleaning woman
Americannoun
Example Sentences
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She was a cleaning woman at Duke University and she was of that generation of Black Americans whose occupation all too often belied both their ambition and their abilities.
From Washington Post • Jan. 19, 2022
The film was a delicate, delightfully weird love story between a cleaning woman and a fish-man kept at a top-secret government facility.
From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 17, 2021
I was working as a cleaning woman in the library during the day and doing underground theater in the evening.
From New York Times • Aug. 3, 2021
In "The Anatomy Lesson," we meet a cleaning woman, Olivia, described as "a small, bottom-heavy, earthbound stranger, the color of bittersweet chocolate."
From Salon • Feb. 7, 2021
Angela took the dish towel from the cleaning woman and bunched it against her face to muffle the wrenching sobs.
From "The Westing Game" by Ellen Raskin
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