How to Use maid in a Sentence

maid

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  • She hired a maid to do the cleaning.
  • The ghosts of his past haunt him with the arrival of a new maid.
    — Allison Argueta-Claros, Los Angeles Times, 27 Oct. 2023
  • There, Ethan will meet and fall in love with an Irish maid.
    — Justin Beal, Harper’s Magazine , 14 Dec. 2022
  • His wife is in a maid outfit, and his mom is dressed as a drug lord.
    — Jazz Tangcay, Variety, 26 Apr. 2022
  • Yet a maid with a broom will always be looking at the sky.
    — Nick Remsen, CNN, 12 July 2022
  • Why does the French maid so closely resemble the mistress of the house?
    — Michael Dirda, Washington Post, 13 July 2023
  • Your spoon was likely a gift to a maid or house servant.
    — Jerry L. Dobesh | For The Oregonian/oregonlive, oregonlive, 5 Dec. 2022
  • Wei Yingluo enters the palace as a maid to avenge her sister’s death.
    — L Tong, Wired, 15 Jan. 2022
  • Her maid Ellen Bird was one of the survivors who got on a lifeboat and was later able to retell the encounter.
    — Prarthana Prakash, Fortune, 22 June 2023
  • The maid who spent her Sunday near the ropewalks heard there would be a fight the following evening.
    — Stacy Schiff, Smithsonian Magazine, 21 Sep. 2022
  • Serena's greeted at the door by a maid, who asks her to wait for her host.
    — Matt Cabral, EW.com, 28 Sep. 2022
  • But then, egged on by her maid Manthara, Kaikeyi abruptly changes her mind and calls in two boons owed her by the king.
    — Washington Post, 26 Apr. 2022
  • Sarah, a skilled musician, used a horn to summon her maid.
    — Jane L. Levere, Smithsonian Magazine, 8 Apr. 2022
  • Aparicio played Cleo, a maid living in Mexico City in the 1970s.
    — Mia McNiece, Peoplemag, 2 Mar. 2024
  • Butler’s mother worked for a long time as a maid in wealthy white people’s homes.
    — American Artist, Los Angeles Times, 20 Nov. 2023
  • But Teddy Horne was insistent that she not be cast as a maid.
    — Donald Bogle, The Hollywood Reporter, 12 Oct. 2023
  • The woman Mizu saw die wasn’t her mother, but instead a maid paid to keep Mizu hidden.
    — Valerie Wu, Variety, 7 Nov. 2023
  • She was later raised by her grandmother, who worked as a maid.
    — Harrison Smith, Washington Post, 28 Aug. 2023
  • His father picked oranges for a living, and his mother was a maid.
    — Jimena Tavel, Miami Herald, 1 Feb. 2024
  • Lenin, particularly, wrote in one of his works that every maid should learn how to rule the state.
    — Isaac Chotiner, The New Yorker, 15 Mar. 2022
  • Demings is the daughter of a maid and a janitor, and Rubio is the son of Cuban immigrants.
    — Skyler Swisher, Orlando Sentinel, 8 Nov. 2022
  • His father was a bartender and his mother a hotel maid.
    — Brendan Farrington, Chicago Tribune, 8 Nov. 2022
  • The only person in the household who seems to have her head screwed on straight is Anne’s lusty maid, Petra (Sophie Mings).
    — Don Aucoin, BostonGlobe.com, 11 Aug. 2022
  • Following the dinner, the bride and groom’s parents, best man, and maid and man of honor all gave speeches.
    — Alexandra MacOn, Vogue, 16 Jan. 2024
  • In the 1950s, Ms. Turner was reunited with her mother, who was working as a maid in St. Louis.
    — Matt Schudel, Washington Post, 24 May 2023
  • His mother, Theresa, worked as a maid in New York and left him in the care of his great-grandmother for many of his early years.
    — Scott Patsko, cleveland, 19 May 2023
  • Claudine is a single mom of six living in Harlem and commuting to her job as a maid in the wealthy white suburbs.
    — Lizz Schumer, Good Housekeeping, 16 Dec. 2022
  • His beloved Birman cat, Choupette, has two maids, Françoise and Marjorie, and only flys private.
    — Tara Gonzalez, Harper's BAZAAR, 28 Apr. 2023
  • Charlie, who has a maid and lives in a Victorian manse, is mature and aloof.
    — Katy Waldman, The New Yorker, 8 Feb. 2022
  • My mom was trained to be a maid basically, and my dad did construction work.
    — Arlyssa D. Becenti, The Arizona Republic, 28 Jan. 2023

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