How to Use housemaid in a Sentence

housemaid

noun
  • The opera tells the tale of an old maid who has lived in the same house for 40 years with her housemaid.
    — Kathy Cichon, Elgin Courier-News, 16 May 2017
  • The stablehand puts a bridle in the housemaid’s mouth, then ties her wrists.
    — David Fear, Rolling Stone, 11 Feb. 2026
  • The borrego consomme, the housemaid blue corn tortillas and the chilaquiles on the weekends are worth the wait.
    — Kayleigh Ruller, Charlotte Observer, 25 Feb. 2025
  • Paul is established as a decent person, one who risks his own life early on to save a random housemaid.
    — Scott Mendelson, Forbes, 15 Oct. 2021
  • Then there is Naima, who might be more than just a housemaid who has always worked for Nuri’s family.
    — Hazlitt, 3 Apr. 2024
  • What first started as astronomers' wives, daughters, even a housemaid grew into a group of stellar women.
    — Lucy Evans, Scientific American, 22 June 2023
  • Even the kindness of her fellow housemaid Pru cannot convince her to settle for such tough, demeaning work.
    — The Washington Post, The Mercury News, 6 June 2019
  • Kennedy Tolson is the sly queen of side-eye as the disobedient new housemaid Nancy.
    — Pam Kragen, San Diego Union-Tribune, 16 Aug. 2025
  • During the ceremony, three svelte housemaids eye Grace with silent disdain.
    — Eren Orbey, The New Yorker, 24 Aug. 2019
  • Life changes dramatically for a Czech housemaid when the house driver gives her three magical hazel nuts.
    — Houston Chronicle, 12 Dec. 2019
  • To cap it all, Elizabeth, the queen’s personal housemaid, died of blood poisoning.
    — Jonathan Miles, Town & Country, 5 Sep. 2023
  • When Ada’s fingers fidgeted too much, a housemaid attempted to bag the little girl’s hands in black cotton.
    — Abigail Deutsch, WSJ, 13 Dec. 2018
  • Odessa Young plays a housemaid who’s carrying on an affair with the neighbors’ son (O’Connor).
    — Michael Schneider, Variety, 22 Sep. 2021
  • The story follows a woman who accepts a job as a housemaid to a wealthy couple, and stumbles across the family's dark secrets along the way.
    — Lizz Schumer, PEOPLE, 25 Dec. 2025
  • The story follows a woman who accepts a job as a housemaid to a wealthy couple, and stumbles across the family's dark secrets along the way.
    — Rachel Raposas, PEOPLE, 5 Dec. 2025
  • And the prince-like character, or Benedict in our world, is someone who, in fact, needs to do some self-growth to be worthy of the housemaid in a lot of ways.
    — Dessi Gomez, Deadline, 29 Jan. 2026
  • With Maidie Norman, as the housemaid Elvira, who tries to help Blanche get free.
    — Richard Brody, The New Yorker, 10 May 2017
  • Her longtime housemaid–uncredited third parent, Thelma, brings her a nice cup of coffee.
    — Scott Tobias, Vulture, 24 May 2026
  • Both had grandmothers who worked there as housemaids; both noted that there had been years of concerns about contamination and pollution from the lab.
    — Michael Cooper, New York Times, 6 July 2018
  • Last week, a housemaid in the western Indian city of Pune lost one of her many jobs, only to be flooded by offers from across the country.
    — Sanaya Chandar, Quartz India, 10 Nov. 2019
  • His wife, their two adult children and their partners are live-in residents when the young housemaid, a single mother of an 11-month-old infant, is murdered.
    — Stephen Schaefer, Boston Herald, 8 Dec. 2024
  • Margaret Hamilton's screen test Margaret Hamilton was a character actress who played a lot of housemaids.
    — Jeff Labrecque, EW.com, 17 June 2024
  • When she's shown doubling as a timid housemaid to a shifty burglar in a snap, our feels for this iteration of Selina Kyle went Hatha-up-and-away.
    — Rendy Jones, EW.com, 19 July 2024
  • In the film, Seyfried and Sweeney star as Nina, a wealthy housewife, and Millie, their live-in housemaid, respectively.
    — Kimberlee Speakman, PEOPLE, 29 Oct. 2025
  • The Housemaid follows Millie Calloway (Sweeney), a woman who accepts a role as the housemaid to a wealthy couple.
    — Carly Tagen-Dye, PEOPLE, 25 Sep. 2025
  • On the fateful morning, let the housemaid, on entering each visitor’s room, carefully replace the empty stocking dangling on the bedpost with the bulging, worsted one.
    — Nancy Mitford, Vogue, 24 Dec. 2023
  • While Millie worked as a housemaid in the first film, Enzo was the landscaper who knew Andrew's dark secrets and helped free Nina.
    — Caroline Blair, PEOPLE, 10 Jan. 2026
  • Sydney Sweeney plays the new housemaid for a rich couple, played by Brandon Sklenar and a pitch-perfect Amanda Seyfried.
    — Brian Tallerico, Vulture, 28 Feb. 2026
  • The film is based on Freida McFadden's novel of the same name, and follows a young woman down on her luck who starts working for a wealthy couple as their housemaid.
    — Kathleen Walsh, Glamour, 22 Jan. 2025
  • Van Druten was writing the screenplay for Gaslight, the story of a husband slowly driving his wife into madness with the help of a young Cockney housemaid.
    — Stuart Emmrich, Vogue, 11 Oct. 2022

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