How to Use nanny in a Sentence

nanny

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  • When I was growing up, I had a nanny.
  • From [ages] one to three, I was raised by my nanny in New York.
    — Lily Moayeri, Spin, 11 Sep. 2023
  • Preti paid around that cost for her son's care and one-and-a-half times the rate if the nanny worked more than 40 hours.
    — Madison Medeiros, Parents, 3 Dec. 2023
  • The bills don’t stop when the need for daycare, nannies, and babysitters ends.
    — Beth Ann Mayer, Parents, 29 Feb. 2024
  • His wife went to work on a Friday, came home and dropped their nanny about 6:30 p.m.
    — Michelle Boorstein, Washington Post, 11 Sep. 2023
  • The 24-year-old had moved to Alaska the year prior and was working as a nanny.
    — Dateline Nbc, NBC News, 6 Dec. 2022
  • Their directive: two nannies on the corner of the street.
    — WIRED, 1 Nov. 2023
  • The nannies are the only ones paying attention to the world around them.
    — The Editors, Vulture, 25 Aug. 2023
  • Then Dave loads the older four in the car for the school run, and the nanny comes to help with Luke while Jenny gets camera-ready.
    — Christine Lennon, Better Homes & Gardens, 1 Mar. 2023
  • The nanny who Rumpel said was also on the plane has not been identified.
    — Pete Muntean, CNN, 6 June 2023
  • His father now works as a painter and his mother is a nanny.
    — Ethan Fuller, BostonGlobe.com, 26 May 2023
  • With the cast gathered around him, Short sets up a scene in which the show’s star triplets are crying in the night as their nanny soothes them.
    — Rania Aniftos, Billboard, 16 Aug. 2023
  • Kimes stayed on as the Lentzes’ nanny for some time afterward.
    — Ashley Fetters Maloy, Washington Post, 16 May 2023
  • That nanny, Leanne, managed to bring Jericho back to life for the Turners.
    — Benjamin Vanhoose, Peoplemag, 17 Mar. 2023
  • Her father sold ice and coal, and her mother made a living as a nanny.
    — Hanif Abdurraqib, Smithsonian Magazine, 10 Jan. 2023
  • Flora, who works as a nanny, doesn’t know her own worth, and mostly blames the world for her troubles.
    — Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 24 Jan. 2023
  • He probably got dumped by the nanny and found out how much a divorce will cost him.
    — Carolyn Hax, Washington Post, 18 Dec. 2023
  • Tour 2023 early due to the death of her and Foster's nanny earlier this month.
    — Kimberlee Speakman, Peoplemag, 24 Aug. 2023
  • The couple does not have a nanny, but relatives do come around.
    — Alyssa Bailey, ELLE, 1 June 2023
  • The boy’s mother had found Fox through a British nanny services website.
    — San Diego Union-Tribune, 28 Feb. 2023
  • The two married and moved to Connecticut when Alina got work as a nanny.
    — Susan Dunne, Hartford Courant, 28 Oct. 2022
  • Chernyshova took a shower, cleaned her hotel room and called her nanny back in Italy.
    — Rebecca Keegan, The Hollywood Reporter, 24 Feb. 2023
  • The nanny Fidelia Córdoba kept her rhythm in her tetas.
    — Lawrence Jackson, Harper's Magazine, 10 July 2023
  • Satterfield, who was 57 at the time of her death, worked as the Murdaughs’ housekeeper and nanny for over 20 years.
    — Ellise Shafer, Variety, 2 Mar. 2023
  • Beth Lehman, a Greenville, New York, nanny, hopped on a bike for the first time in years while teaching one of her young charges during the pandemic.
    — Leanne Italie, The Christian Science Monitor, 14 Dec. 2022
  • Casey lied to detectives, telling them Caylee had been kidnapped by a nanny.
    — Rania Aniftos, Billboard, 5 Dec. 2022
  • Mae Jean Waters is the black woman who was Sophie’s nanny.
    — William Meyers, WSJ, 23 Nov. 2022
  • Scott also knew them, possibly as a nanny for the family, the spokesman said.
    — Jay Croft, CNN, 21 Oct. 2023
  • In addition, the couple has the support of Turner-Smith's mom — who lives with the family — and at times, a nanny.
    — Angela Andaloro, Peoplemag, 8 Dec. 2022
  • The commute was grueling—a near-four-hour round trip—and his salary was practically the same as the cost of hiring a nanny.
    — Byorianna Rosa Royle, Fortune, 24 Aug. 2023

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