Example sentences for: housekeeper

How can you use “housekeeper” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • In (Bibliothèque Nationale, Paris), one of a suite of self-portraits, Degas' devoted housekeeper and cook looms above his penseur pose, her head the top of a pyramid, like a muse figure or a protective guardian.

  • And in Chapter VI of Vanity Fair , when Blenkinsop, the housekeeper, sought to console Amelia for Joe Sedley's jilting of her dear Rebecca, Thackeray confides (indelicately?)

  • The critics are mostly respectful of Bernardo Bertolucci's sparse romantic tale about a wealthy British pianist and an African housekeeper.

  • And when the Roosevelts moved into the White House, ER carefully employed as cook and housekeeper the dreadful, inexperienced Henrietta Nesbitt, who barked at the president and sneered at foreign dignitaries and made sure the White House served the worst food in America.

  • Men get paid more than women because someone is willing to pay them more, just as Pay Equity Day's organizers are paid more than my housekeeper because someone is willing to do it.


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