How to use housekeeper in a sentence

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• The clothes were folded by the housekeeper.From the entry fold
• Fear flashed through Tom's eyes as the lackwit looked to the housekeeper.1996, Denise Domning, A Love for All Seasons, page 82. From the entry lackwit
• You should not act as if a housekeeper is your personal maid.1983, Working woman, volume 8, numbers 7-12, page 194. From the entry prediscussed
• Anthony, their daily housekeeper, brought in the milky coffee and placed it on the breakfast table.1959, Muriel Spark, chapter 1, in Memento Mori, New York, N.Y.: New Directions, published 2000, page 13. From the entry milky
• The housekeeper looked up over the top of her reading glasses a trifle dourly.1927, Ernest Bramah [pseudonym; Ernest Brammah Smith], Max Carrados Mysteries. From the entry dourly
• Of course, all housekeepers make enough pastry for two or three pie-bakings, don t we?1927, Farm Journal - Volume 51, page 96. From the entry pie-baking
• With so many housekeepers and farmworkers, teachers and gardeners, line cooks and police gone, the state seizes up.2021 October 5, Ian Bogost, “A Day Without Facebook”, in The Atlantic. From the entry mockumentary
• She recounted that while speaking extemporaneously during a livestream, she mentioned her twice-weekly housekeeper who “cleans the toilets.”2021 April 29, Katherine Rosman, “Girl, Wash Your Timeline”, in The New York Times, →ISSN. From the entry extemporaneously
• Years back, the housekeeper says, her mother encounted the "last fairish" that ever was seen in the hollow.2009, Anita Rose, Gender and Victorian Reform, page 211. From the entry fairish
• Mashallah, the cook, housekeeper and moral guardian of the family, had a different relationship with each of us.2006, Irene Gill, Oma, Mu and Me, APS Publishing. From the entry mashallah
• She wondered where his thoughts were and whether she was anything more to him than a bedmate and housekeeper.2005, John Durand, The Odyssey of Mary B: A True Tale, page 227. From the entry bedmate
• Tone takes Davis to his Connecticut home where housekeeper Skipworth tsktsks as Davis gets demanding and asks for booze.1985, Jay Robert Nash, Stanley Ralph Ross, The motion picture guide. From the entry tsktsk
• It’s all confirmed!’ ‘And the youngster – me?’ asked Jessamy. ‘Well, whoever else you silly child!’ said the housekeeper, smiling.1967, Barbara Sleigh, Jessamy, Sevenoaks, Kent: Bloomsbury, published 1993, →ISBN, page 32. From the entry youngster
• The bride was a shocking housekeeper and dragged round all day in boudoir cap, frowsy negligee and mules—slip, slop, slip, slop.1944, Emily Carr, “First Tenant”, in The House of All Sorts. From the entry mule
• NORMAN FORBES' squire, Miss JEAN CADELL'S housekeeper, left no chinks in their armour for a critic's spleenful arrow.1920, Various, Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 158, April 28, 1920. From the entry spleenful
• A resident was given a fright by their housekeeper who was standing outside the 9th floor of a building without safety measures in northwestern China.2021 November 29, “Housekeeper gives Chinese resident a fright after standing outside 9th floor window without safety measures”, in Yahoo!…. From the entry Zhongning
• I told her it would be no trouble for my housekeeper, Mrs Murphy, to make cucumber sandwiches and asparagus rolls for twentyfive.2014, Clive Thomas, Thursday's Child : Journeys Far and Wide in the Australian Outback, →ISBN. From the entry asparagus roll
• However, if a one-half hour meeting means one less room accomplished per roomkeeper, the housekeeper is challenged to cover this time somehow.1997, The Rooms Chronicle, volumes 5-9, page 70. From the entry roomkeeper
• His housekeeper Maria, however, takes a very dim view of all his revellry, and finally after a particularly boisterous thrash she puts her foot down.1984, Software Projects, Jet Set Willy (video game's printed instructions). From the entry thrash
• Tommy Riggs and his housekeeper, Mrs.1942 August 22, “Housekeeper Wanted by Tommy Riggss”, in Harrisburg Telegraph, volume CXII, number 199, Harrisburg, Pa.. From the entry p. m.
• By a stroke of luck, I was offered a peppercorn rent on a holiday cottage by the sea that I had previously cleaned as a housekeeper.2024 March 27, Jade Angeles Fitton, “A moment that changed me: my partner drove off and left me – and in solitude I found my…. From the entry peppercorn rent
• Video shot in Zhongning County in Ningxia Province on November 29 shows a housekeeper standing outside a flat on the 9th floor to clean the windows.2021 November 29, “Housekeeper gives Chinese resident a fright after standing outside 9th floor window without safety measures”, in Yahoo!…. From the entry Zhongning
• So I left Teach for America, moved home to be with my mother and prepare for my surgery, and transformed myself into a macrobiotically inclined housekeeper.2008 June 29, Glynis Ann Ritchie, “Rescued by an Israeli Soldier”, in New York Times. From the entry macrobiotically
• When she walked into the house she was astounded to find her housekeeper sitting in front of the kitchen TV, eating a vile burritolike concoction and watching a cartoon.2003, Diana Dempsey, Catch the Moon. From the entry burritolike
• Furphy's account of the relations between owner's wife, housekeeper, kitchen girl and owner, narangies and stockmen, matches Patty Kinnaird's account of Warandara society in her letters to her husband.2000, Susan Lever, Real Relations: The Feminist Politics of Form in Australian Fiction. From the entry narangy
• His childhood is spent — the old housekeeper tells me this — in the shadow of an overadored elder sister, who later dies suddenly of meningitis.1959, Shane Martin, The third statue: a Professor Challis adventure. From the entry overadored
• Hastings talked with the housekeeper for a while, and an hour had slipped away when Wyllard suggested that he should show her the sloo beyond the bluff .1910, Harold Bindloss, “Hawtrey's Deputy”, in The Windsor Magazine, volume 32, page 436. From the entry sloo
• One of the maids introduced me to Miss Clifford, the housekeeper, a grandmotherly yet somehow youthful woman who offered me a cup of tea I was too nervous to accept.2022, Hernan Diaz, Trust, Picador (2023), page 256. From the entry grandmotherly
• She was a solitary figure now in the house of her bachelor uncle, looked after by a crabbed housekeeper, and about as welcome as a stray kitten with the mange.1941 May 17, Norma Jean Bunting, “Short Story: Beauty Salon”, in The Daily Times, volume LV, number 130, Davenport, Ia., →OCLC, page 10…. From the entry trust-fund baby

Meaning of housekeeper

1. noun Someone (traditionally a woman) employed to look after the home, typically by managing domestic servants or superintending household management; also someone with equivalent duties in a hotel, institution etc.
2. noun Someone who manages the running of a home, traditionally the female head of the household.
3. noun Someone who keeps to their house; someone who rarely ventures away from home; an unadventurous person, a homebody.

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Questions about housekeeper in a sentence

How do you use housekeeper in a sentence?

Housekeeper is used as a noun. For example: “She was their third housekeeper, but after a month or so she also gave up.”

What is a short sentence with housekeeper?

“Tommy Riggs and his housekeeper, Mrs.”

What does housekeeper mean?

Housekeeper means someone (traditionally a woman) employed to look after the home, typically by managing domestic servants or superintending household management; also someone with equivalent duties in a hotel, institution etc.