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
  • Dad was the pirate king, and my mum was one of the maids.
    — Ramin Setoodeh, Variety, 10 Dec. 2024
  • The maid would come and dress me in the morning, then leave me there for the day.
    — Audrey Clare Farley, Town & Country, 20 Apr. 2021
  • There, Ethan will meet and fall in love with an Irish maid.
    — Justin Beal, Harper’s Magazine , 14 Dec. 2022
  • His mother worked for the Hopes as a maid for 34 years.
    — Tina Daunt, latimes.com, 6 June 2019
  • Their garb contrasts sharply with the plain black-and-white clothes worn by the maid.
    — Judith H. Dobrzynski, WSJ, 24 Jan. 2020
  • The bodies were found by a maid after the guests failed to check out.
    — David Matthews, New York Daily News, 17 July 2024
  • His wife is in a maid outfit, and his mom is dressed as a drug lord.
    — Jazz Tangcay, Variety, 26 Apr. 2022
  • The bodies were found by a maid Tuesday when the guests failed to check out.
    — Aishwarya Thapa Chhetri, NBC News, 17 July 2024
  • Margaret works as a maid – and not just in any old house, mind you.
    — Erin Douglass, The Christian Science Monitor, 27 Oct. 2021
  • Yet a maid with a broom will always be looking at the sky.
    — Nick Remsen, CNN, 12 July 2022
  • His mother worked as a live-in maid and Rowe lived with an aunt.
    — Janene Holzberg, baltimoresun.com, 6 Apr. 2018
  • It’s not just the crown jewels—it’s the crown jewels, and the jewels of the maid, and the watch of the secretary!
    — Sophie Bushwick, Scientific American, 21 June 2021
  • More stained and leaded glass doors are found in the main hall and the entry to the maid’s quarters.
    — Judy Rose, Detroit Free Press, 28 Apr. 2018
  • That’s where the princess grows up, yet, somehow fate returns her to the palace to work as a maid.
    — Joan MacDonald, Forbes, 12 Oct. 2021
  • 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
  • The mother was a maid who had lost her job because of the lockdown.
    — New York Times, 1 May 2020
  • The men on the veranda and the little maid in the side yard hear Pianon give a loud cry.
    — Andrea Lee, The New Yorker, 28 Dec. 2020
  • Wei Yingluo enters the palace as a maid to avenge her sister’s death.
    — L Tong, Wired, 15 Jan. 2022
  • The maid, Camae, is a pretty young woman and a fan of the reverend.
    — San Diego Union-Tribune, 29 Apr. 2021
  • There wasn’t a maid or matron of honor as is common in the U.S.
    — Alexandra MacOn, Vogue, 19 May 2018
  • 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
  • Inside the suburban-style home, a nurse and a maid bustled in the kitchen.
    — New York Times, 13 Apr. 2018
  • All of a sudden, from my maid’s room on Rue Bichat, I was propelled.
    — Y-Jean Mun-Delsalle, Forbes, 7 Dec. 2021
  • Pratt worked as a maid in the homes of white residents, then at a flower shop.
    — Sophie Carson, jsonline.com, 13 Aug. 2020
  • Here Now, about a Black maid standing up to a white family's child abuse in the 1960s.
    — Jack Smart, People.com, 12 Dec. 2024
  • Back at the safe house, Kyle and the gang are questioning Gutierrez on the polygraph while the maid, his informant in the Carrillo home, is having a much quieter chat with Kaitlyn.
    — Andy Andersen, Vulture, 1 Dec. 2024
  • By the 1950s, the talented author who had worked with Langston Hughes and won a Guggenheim fellowship was struggling to make ends meet, working as a maid and taking other odd jobs.
    — Ellen Wexler, Smithsonian Magazine, 16 Jan. 2025

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