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
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
This is evident as he harangues Wondrous, the cleaning woman who works in his wife's Greenwich Village townhouse.
From Salon • Feb. 7, 2021
Hoping to create a better life for herself and her son, a cleaning woman starts a crime-scene-cleanup business with her unreliable sister.
From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 28, 2020
His cleaning woman tries to take care of him, but he gets worse and worse: he stops eating, then stops speaking.
From "Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers" by Deborah Heiligman
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