Examples of laundress in a Sentence
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In a little over a year, my three-decade indenture as a full-time laundress will come to an end.
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Mary McNamara, Los Angeles Times, 19 June 2024
Tubman served as a volunteer for the Union Army, working as an informant behind enemy lines in the South, as well as a nurse, laundress and cook before eventually becoming a spy and scout, according to the National Museum of African American History.
—Kara Nelson, CNN, 18 June 2024
In the late nineteenth century, women cooks, maids, and laundresses in County Mayo, Ireland, refused to provide services and labor to an absentee British landlord named Captain Charles Boycott.
—Erica Chenoweth, Foreign Affairs, 8 Feb. 2022
The residence comes with a dedicated staff of six: a butler, a chef, a laundress, two gardeners, and two housekeepers.
—Dobrina Zhekova, Travel + Leisure, 20 Mar. 2024
The laundress in her 1905 book The Tale of Mrs. Tiggy-Winkle was inspired by her family’s washerwoman on holidays in Scotland; that tale, like others, was composed for real children in her life.
—Lisa Wong MacAbasco, Vogue, 5 Mar. 2024
Everything Everywhere All at Once (2022) The Daniels rightfully won big at last year’s Oscars for this ambitious, moving, and exceedingly exciting genre-bender, which stars Michelle Yeoh as a put-upon laundress who gets a chance to see where her life could have gone.
—EW.com, 31 Jan. 2024
In New York City, the press has documented the rise of private kitchen staff, rotating teams of nannies, and in-home laundresses who will devote half an hour to ironing a single shirt.
—Evan Osnos, The New Yorker, 22 Jan. 2024
His father was head janitor for an apartment building near Bryn Mawr College, and the family, including his mother, Rose (Banks) Becton, a housekeeper and laundress, lived in a basement apartment.
—Trip Gabriel, New York Times, 5 Dec. 2023
Mary McNamara, Los Angeles Times, 19 June 2024
Tubman served as a volunteer for the Union Army, working as an informant behind enemy lines in the South, as well as a nurse, laundress and cook before eventually becoming a spy and scout, according to the National Museum of African American History.
—Kara Nelson, CNN, 18 June 2024
In the late nineteenth century, women cooks, maids, and laundresses in County Mayo, Ireland, refused to provide services and labor to an absentee British landlord named Captain Charles Boycott.
—Erica Chenoweth, Foreign Affairs, 8 Feb. 2022
The residence comes with a dedicated staff of six: a butler, a chef, a laundress, two gardeners, and two housekeepers.
—Dobrina Zhekova, Travel + Leisure, 20 Mar. 2024
The laundress in her 1905 book The Tale of Mrs. Tiggy-Winkle was inspired by her family’s washerwoman on holidays in Scotland; that tale, like others, was composed for real children in her life.
—Lisa Wong MacAbasco, Vogue, 5 Mar. 2024
Everything Everywhere All at Once (2022) The Daniels rightfully won big at last year’s Oscars for this ambitious, moving, and exceedingly exciting genre-bender, which stars Michelle Yeoh as a put-upon laundress who gets a chance to see where her life could have gone.
—EW.com, 31 Jan. 2024
In New York City, the press has documented the rise of private kitchen staff, rotating teams of nannies, and in-home laundresses who will devote half an hour to ironing a single shirt.
—Evan Osnos, The New Yorker, 22 Jan. 2024
His father was head janitor for an apartment building near Bryn Mawr College, and the family, including his mother, Rose (Banks) Becton, a housekeeper and laundress, lived in a basement apartment.
—Trip Gabriel, New York Times, 5 Dec. 2023
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“Laundress.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/laundress. Accessed 4 Jul. 2024.
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