How to Use chambermaid in a Sentence

chambermaid

noun
  • That chambermaid is one of the ghosts between the lines of Mara’s story.
    — Sheri Linden, The Hollywood Reporter, 14 Apr. 2022
  • The siblings were paid wages near the very highest rate in the city for a chef de cuisine and chambermaid.
    — Annette Gordon-Reed, New York Times, 24 Aug. 2017
  • His father left school to become a butcher’s boy; his mother worked as a chambermaid.
    — Adam Begley, The Atlantic, 9 Sep. 2022
  • Their home is gone, and her mother works as a chambermaid at the hotel, keeping her long black hair pinned under a cap.
    — Yvonne Zipp, The Christian Science Monitor, 1 Nov. 2024
  • Marc Maron was cast as a motel manager who sees something in Leslie and hires her as a chambermaid.
    — Seth Abramovitch, The Hollywood Reporter, 15 Feb. 2023
  • Sure, a pumpkin turns into a carriage and the chambermaid becomes a princess until midnight.
    — Donna Freedman, Alaska Dispatch News, 19 Oct. 2017
  • His father was a French plantation owner and his mother a chambermaid.
    — Claire Bugos, Smithsonian Magazine, 5 Aug. 2020
  • Cleese wrote the series with co-star and then-wife Connie Booth, who played chambermaid Polly.
    — Jesse Whittock, Deadline, 28 Oct. 2025
  • Police arrived another eight minutes after that—when the chambermaid had already led the man away.
    — Emma Dibdin, Harper's BAZAAR, 16 Nov. 2020
  • Police arrived another eight minutes after that - when the chambermaid had already led the man away.
    — Caroline Hallemann, Town & Country, 16 Nov. 2020
  • This darkly funny novel follows a young woman working as a chambermaid at an exclusive yacht club.
    — Seija Rankin, EW.com, 20 May 2021
  • Jelani Pitcher plays King; Shadana Patterson is the chambermaid.
    — Myrna Petlicki, chicagotribune.com, 4 June 2019
  • According to a Physics Today article that delved into her background, her father was a plumber and her mother worked part time as a hotel chambermaid.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 16 Feb. 2025
  • The son of a French slave-owner and merchant sailor in Haiti and his mistress, a Creole chambermaid believed to have been a slave, the artist was raised in France.
    — Los Angeles Times, 7 Apr. 2020
  • In 1981, Calle worked as a chambermaid in a Venetian hotel, using not just a broom and a mop, but also a camera and a cassette recorder.
    — Washington Post, 30 Nov. 2021
  • In the event that the clean and naked combo isn’t clear to potential customers, the hotel created a cute video showing a chambermaid in headphones dancing about cleaning the room and washing all the bedding.
    — Christopher Muther, BostonGlobe.com, 21 Mar. 2018
  • During her time working as a chambermaid at a Venetian hotel in 1981, Calle took photographs of the rooms she was assigned to clean.
    — Sophie Calle, Harper's Magazine, 16 Feb. 2011
  • During her time working as a chambermaid at a Venetian hotel in 1981, Calle took photographs of the rooms she was assigned to clean.
    — Claire Messud, Harper’s Magazine , 7 Dec. 2021
  • The second floor houses a Theater Room Museum where distinct outlines of sleeping bodies have been found in the dust on the beds — sightings that have been attributed to a former chambermaid.
    — The Arizona Republic, 27 Apr. 2024
  • Sandra points out that chambermaids and barmaids are often powerless to resist their employers’ advances and that the Americans’ less class-conscious but more consensual approach to coupling is more equitable.
    — Chris Klimek, Vulture, 9 Feb. 2024
  • Sandra points out that chambermaids and barmaids are often powerless to resist their employers’ advances and that the Americans’ less class-conscious but more consensual approach to coupling is more equitable.
    — Chris Klimek, Vulture, 23 Feb. 2024
  • In 1911, a gas explosion in that room caused major damage to the hotel and severely injured a chambermaid, according to the Estes Park Trail Gazette.
    — Julie Tremaine, PEOPLE, 30 Oct. 2025
  • Meanwhile, the rakish Airk is making time with Dove (Ellie Bamber), a chambermaid ensnared in a messy, upstairs-downstairs love affair, as television chambermaids so often are.
    — Joshua Alston, Variety, 30 Nov. 2022
  • As kobolds go, Heinzelmann was more harmless than most, going about his business protecting the castle from giants and dwarves and keeping the staff updated on faerie gossip, as well as protecting the chambermaids from unwelcome attentions from visiting noblemen.
    — Literary Hub, 27 Oct. 2025

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