How to Use maid in a Sentence

maid

noun
  • She hired a maid to do the cleaning.
  • There's more to this maid than meets the eye.
    — Allison Degrushe, Entertainment Weekly, 29 Jan. 2026
  • These hands are meant to have a maid, please.
    — Literary Hub, 27 Mar. 2026
  • Maybe for a governess, but a maid?
    — Christina Grace Tucker, Vulture, 26 Feb. 2026
  • The ghosts of his past haunt him with the arrival of a new maid.
    — Allison Argueta-Claros, Los Angeles Times, 27 Oct. 2023
  • The room looked very nice, so clearly the maid had done her work.
    — Judith Martin, The Mercury News, 15 Mar. 2025
  • Margaret works as a maid – and not just in any old house, mind you.
    — Erin Douglass, The Christian Science Monitor, 27 Oct. 2021
  • His wife is in a maid outfit, and his mom is dressed as a drug lord.
    — Jazz Tangcay, Variety, 26 Apr. 2022
  • My poor mother had to work as a maid in the village.
    — Literary Hub, 6 Jan. 2026
  • Their garb contrasts sharply with the plain black-and-white clothes worn by the maid.
    — Judith H. Dobrzynski, WSJ, 24 Jan. 2020
  • The maid would come and dress me in the morning, then leave me there for the day.
    — Audrey Clare Farley, Town & Country, 20 Apr. 2021
  • The maid dresses the child in woolies and urges make-believe.
    — Meghan Cox Gurdon, WSJ, 22 Dec. 2017
  • The bodies were found by a maid after the guests failed to check out.
    — David Matthews, New York Daily News, 17 July 2024
  • His mother worked as a live-in maid and Rowe lived with an aunt.
    — Janene Holzberg, baltimoresun.com, 6 Apr. 2018
  • Agnes is a young maid-of-honour, blonde, and agreeable.
    — Maureen Lee Lenker, EW.com, 5 Aug. 2025
  • Her mother was a maid and died when Sophie was young.
    — Monica Mercuri, Forbes.com, 29 Jan. 2026
  • The mother was a maid who had lost her job because of the lockdown.
    — New York Times, 1 May 2020
  • The maid/matron of honor do not count in this equation.
    — Joe Kinsey Outkick, FOXNews.com, 19 May 2026
  • Wei Yingluo enters the palace as a maid to avenge her sister’s death.
    — L Tong, Wired, 15 Jan. 2022
  • Pratt worked as a maid in the homes of white residents, then at a flower shop.
    — Sophie Carson, jsonline.com, 13 Aug. 2020
  • Serena's greeted at the door by a maid, who asks her to wait for her host.
    — Matt Cabral, EW.com, 28 Sep. 2022
  • The bodies were found by a maid Tuesday when the guests failed to check out.
    — Aishwarya Thapa Chhetri, NBC News, 17 July 2024
  • Sneaking around like a scullery maid feels like a big ask on a spenny weekend break.
    — Harriet Marsden, TheWeek, 2 June 2026
  • That’s where the princess grows up, yet, somehow fate returns her to the palace to work as a maid.
    — Joan MacDonald, Forbes, 12 Oct. 2021
  • Palace maids stand around a plump woman, struggling to fasten a black belt sash around her waist.
    — Lavender Au, The Dial, 30 June 2026
  • When the maid denied her, Clinton pushed past her into the house.
    — Longreads, 10 June 2019
  • Inside the suburban-style home, a nurse and a maid bustled in the kitchen.
    — New York Times, 13 Apr. 2018
  • Adele Symons is a maid who cleans houses in small Ontario towns to scrape by.
    — Michael Washburn, National Review, 26 Sep. 2020
  • As teens, boys apprenticed on farms or with artisans, and girls as dairy maids.
    — Literary Hub, 19 Feb. 2026
  • At the moment of your arrival, a maid would take your coat to the second-floor cloakroom.
    — Robert Khederian, Curbed, 17 Sep. 2025

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