How to Use housekeeper in a Sentence

housekeeper

noun
  • Even the housekeepers know what to look out for.
    — Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 7 Feb. 2026
  • Collins even sent his housekeeper to help out at their new home.
    — Marina Watts, People.com, 5 Dec. 2024
  • The best bit for the housekeepers?
    — Mattias Goldmann, Forbes.com, 10 Sep. 2025
  • June fires her housekeeper rather than ask her to not eat fast food in her house.
    — Anders Fogh Rasmussen, Newsweek, 4 Feb. 2025
  • The singer was found dead in his bathtub by a housekeeper.
    — Emily Zemler, Rolling Stone, 16 Apr. 2026
  • Frank's housekeeper placed him at home at the time of the murder.
    — Town & Country, 22 Feb. 2023
  • There’s a spare key under the pot next to the door for the housekeeper.
    — Longreads, 10 Aug. 2020
  • The star who greets housekeepers by name and dances with them in the hallways.
    — Leila Cobo, Billboard, 15 Aug. 2024
  • This too will likely have to be cleaned from time to time by the new housekeeper.
    — Stacey Leasca, Travel + Leisure, 3 Nov. 2020
  • Prepping for housekeepers doesn’t have to be a lengthy process.
    — Patricia Shannon, Southern Living, 4 Mar. 2026
  • The housekeepers are not doing a great job.
    — Kim Velsey, Curbed, 13 Feb. 2026
  • Her body was found by a housekeeper under the bed in her cabin.
    — CBS News, 5 Dec. 2025
  • Tércia is a housekeeper by day who keeps her own house in order in the evenings.
    — Jessica Kiang, Variety, 20 Jan. 2022
  • When dinner was ready the housekeeper took my hand in hers and led me into the big room.
    — Robin Antalek, Longreads, 22 Apr. 2020
  • His mom was a housekeeper for a while, and as a boy, Dominguez went on jobs with her, too.
    — Los Angeles Times, 13 Apr. 2022
  • The pool man and the gardener each came two days a week; the housekeeper, four.
    — Alan Judd, ajc, 13 June 2022
  • Then one of our housekeepers, a cheerful, large woman, stepped on a chick and killed it.
    — WSJ, 8 Feb. 2019
  • And this isn’t about depriving servers, housekeepers or tour guides of their salary.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 14 Oct. 2019
  • And this isn’t about depriving servers, housekeepers or tour guides of their salary.
    — Michelle Singletary, Washington Post, 12 Oct. 2019
  • Poe Mamhe Thar plays the housekeeper.
    — Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 2 Apr. 2026
  • Maybe the housekeeper, a plant of the obsessed doctor’s, did it?
    — Los Angeles Times, 20 Jan. 2026
  • There was talk that a man on the second floor had been the first to go, followed by a beloved housekeeper.
    — Ava Kofman, ProPublica, 30 Nov. 2020
  • The family housekeeper died in a fall in the middle of all this.
    — Bill Goodykoontz, AZCentral.com, 13 Oct. 2025
  • Then the housekeeper says not to worry and quietly cleans up the mess.
    — Sam Sacks, WSJ, 22 Nov. 2018
  • My housekeeper just went and bought a shirt for Joe and a track suit for [his wife] Kirsten.
    — Seth Abramovitch, The Hollywood Reporter, 15 Jan. 2025
  • The housekeeper will find someone who needs them (this is not in lieu of a gratuity).
    — Sheryl Julian, BostonGlobe.com, 30 July 2019
  • His father at the time peddled linoleum from the back of a truck; his mother was a housekeeper.
    — Jonathan Kandell, New York Times, 12 Aug. 2020
  • On the day Pearson was killed, his housekeeper arrived for work at the house.
    — oregonlive, 8 July 2021
  • At about noon, the housekeeper entered the home but didn’t notice anything out of place.
    — Dave Altimari, courant.com, 16 June 2019
  • Doris worked as a housekeeper, then a nurse's aid, struggling to provide for the children.
    — jsonline.com, 20 Apr. 2022

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