MAID in a Sentence

Learn MAID from example sentences; some of them are from classic books. These examples are selected from a corpus with 300,000 sentences, including classic works and current mainstream media. Some sentences also link to their contexts.
222 example sentences for MAID, such as:
1. A maid or nurse native to India.
2. A maid that laughs is half taken.
3. We had to hire maids through an agency.
4. Her maid helped her to dress for the ball.
5. Ask the hour maid servant to clean the floor.
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Animal Farm by George Orwell
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 Meanings and Examples of MAID
maid
 n.  an unmarried girl (especially a virgin)
 n.  a female domestic
Classic Sentence: (210 in 15 pages)
1  Ten o'clock passed, and I heard the footsteps of the maid as they pattered off to bed.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In PART I: CHAPTER V. OUR ADVERTISEMENT BRINGS A VISITOR
2  The butler had been a soldier; had married a lady's maid; and, under a glass case there was a watch that had stopped a bullet on the field of Waterloo.
Between the Acts By Virginia Woolf
Context  Highlight   In Unit 1
3  "Batty," Grace called her, as she felt on her face the divided glance that was half meant for a beast in a swamp, half for a maid in a print frock and white apron.
Between the Acts By Virginia Woolf
Context  Highlight   In Unit 1
4  The scullery maid, before the plates came out, was cooling her cheeks by the lily pond.
Between the Acts By Virginia Woolf
Context  Highlight   In Unit 3
5  The flower petal sank; the maid returned to the kitchen; Bartholomew sipped his wine.
Between the Acts By Virginia Woolf
Context  Highlight   In Unit 3
6  Candish, a gardener, and a maid were all bringing chairs--for the audience.
Between the Acts By Virginia Woolf
Context  Highlight   In Unit 5
7  Lady Harpy Harraden entered her dressing-room, followed by Deb her maid.
Between the Acts By Virginia Woolf
Context  Highlight   In Unit 9
8  Sans niece, sans lover; and sans maid.
Between the Acts By Virginia Woolf
Context  Highlight   In Unit 10
9  A maid servant living alone in a house not far from the river, had gone up-stairs to bed about eleven.
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde By Robert Louis Stevenson
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER THE CAREW MURDER CASE
10  Although a fog rolled over the city in the small hours, the early part of the night was cloudless, and the lane, which the maid's window overlooked, was brilliantly lit by the full moon.
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde By Robert Louis Stevenson
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER THE CAREW MURDER CASE
11  At the horror of these sights and sounds, the maid fainted.
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde By Robert Louis Stevenson
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER THE CAREW MURDER CASE
12  And he briefly narrated what the maid had seen, and showed the broken stick.
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde By Robert Louis Stevenson
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER THE CAREW MURDER CASE
13  "Particularly small and particularly wicked-looking, is what the maid calls him," said the officer.
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde By Robert Louis Stevenson
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER THE CAREW MURDER CASE
14  Blank silence followed, no one protesting; only the maid lifted up her voice and now wept loudly.
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde By Robert Louis Stevenson
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER THE LAST NIGHT
15  Miss Bentley was a shallow old maid with a rather large nose and romantic disposition who served tea with a careful intensity worthy of a sacrament.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H Lawrence
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 11
Example Sentence:
1  Alex is too young to be already thinking of herself as an old maid.
2  Ask the hour maid servant to clean the floor.
3  Her maid helped her to dress for the ball.
4  Prudence is a rich ugly old maid courted by Incapacity.
5  A maid that laughs is half taken.
6  In the beach resort, the apartments and villas have daily maid service.
7  Her maid helped her to dress up for the party.
8  A maid or nurse native to India.
9  I'll send the maid round to carry it to your house.
10  We had to hire maids through an agency.
11  When the belly is full the mind is among the maids.
12  Men are April when they woo,December when they wed;maids are May when they are maids,but the sky changes when they are wives.