charwoman

How To Use charwoman In A Sentence

• They had been lifted from a garbage can used by bureaucrats in some Soviet Russian Consulate, pilfered by what old British spy novelists used to call a "charwoman", in Yankee parlance, a janitor. Richard H. Smith: Could a California Budget Fix Threaten National Security?
• In his second novel, The Charwoman's Daughter, a description of young men and women rendezvousing in Grafton Street of an evening circa 1912 rings true today.
• She usually dressed rather in the style of a superior kind of charwoman, and it was not so very surprising that she should have imagined that she was one; and still less that people should accept her statement and help her to get work. The Toys of Peace, and other papers
• The play has two characters, upper class Mrs Holbrook and charwoman, Mrs Chicky.
• (I say charwoman, meaning a woman who is paid to do work that other servants are hired to do, but will not.) [Illustration] The Pirate's Pocket Book
• My mother did not keep very good health, so we had a charwoman who came in to do the cleaning.
• My mother did not keep very good health, so we had a charwoman who came in to do the cleaning.
• WILLIS: A charwoman is a person who cleans a building, so she is responsible for cleaning up the building. CNN Transcript Jan 29, 2009
• I also told Miss Peabody to give the charwoman similar instructions. ABSOLUTE TRUTHS
• I met a Battersea charwoman yesterday who was almost in tears because she lived on the wrong side of the street and couldn't vote for Saklatvala.