How to Use cleaning lady in a Sentence

cleaning lady

noun
  • Her mother was a cleaning lady.
    — Azar Nafisi, Time, 3 Feb. 2026
  • For example, there was a cleaning lady.
    — Georg Szalai, HollywoodReporter, 20 Aug. 2025
  • The widow — the cleaning lady at the aquarium where Marcellus is housed — will be played by Sally Field.
    — Hanna Wickes, Kansas City Star, 11 Mar. 2026
  • In it, after her fisherman husband disappears at sea, Telsi takes a job as a cleaning lady on a boat moored at the local marina, guarded by a group of women.
    — John Hopewell, Variety, 8 Apr. 2026
  • The Full Cast Sally Field plays the widow, a cleaning lady at the aquarium where Marcellus is housed.
    — Hanna Wickes, Charlotte Observer, 11 Mar. 2026
  • Sally Field plays Tova Sullivan, an elderly widow who works nights as a cleaning lady at an aquarium on Puget Sound.
    — Stephanie Zacharek, Time, 8 May 2026
  • The narrator is not actually human, but rather a giant Pacific octopus named Marcellus who forms an unlikely bond with the cleaning lady at the aquarium where he is housed.
    — Hanna Wickes, Miami Herald, 11 Mar. 2026
  • In a scene based on a real incident that crystallized some of the public’s reaction to Bardot at the time, a cleaning lady lashes out at the star’s character in an elevator, angry over her promiscuity while the maid’s brother is fighting in the Algerian War.
    — Lee Smith, CNN Money, 28 Dec. 2025
  • One day a friend informed me that her cleaning lady had been duped into transferring Rs 25,000 ($284) to a scammer’s account with the false promise of a Rs 25 lakh ($28,470) lottery win.
    — Snigdha Poonam, The Dial, 28 Oct. 2025

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