Example sentences for: maid

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

  • The Secret Service agents, the guard, the steward, and the maid owe their jobs to their discretion.

  • The self-styled "awkward old maid," immune to the blandishments of Beltway power, is supposedly the beefy substance of this superficial government.

  • She also continually complains about the services of her maid.

  • Walter S. Mossberg, who writes the "Personal Technology" column for the Wall Street Journal , but whose true expertise lies in the field of music (when Chatterbox worked at the Journal 's Washington bureau, he was the only person there who knew all the words to Woody Guthrie's "Union Maid"), takes exception to this column's assertion that baby boomers were not the first large mainstream audience to embrace rock 'n' roll (which previously, of course, had been embraced by blacks).

  • Given the material, it's not surprising that Jane Austen should now be seen as literature's beloved old maid: modest, retiring, more comfortable darning socks by the fire than out in the big bad world, something of a gossip but basically sweet.


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