Sentence examples for charlady from inspiring English sources
noun
A woman who cleans houses and offices as an occupation.
Mr. Rudd, unmarried, hired an ancient charlady as domestic staff, pro tem.
Ms. Ringer is a cigarette-puffing harpy, with a caricatured charlady air.
Others along for the existential ride include an attractive young couple who speak of being consumed by sin (Tom Davey and Natalie Walter inhabit those roles as if on their way to a photo shoot); an anxious charlady (Ursula Mohan) who can be combative when need be; and a parson (Paul Westwood) who is all but hemmed in by politesse.
His father died of war wounds when he was an infant; his mother was a charlady with no talent for communication, emotional or intellectual.
She plays the heartbreakingly nice Vera: a cheerful charlady in postwar London with a kind word for everyone, cleaning posh folks' houses, uncomplainingly looking after her elderly mum and popping in to see her friends and neighbours are all right.
Dickens pulls no punches when describing the fate that awaits Scrooge if he doesn't change his ways: he will die unmourned and forgotten, buried in a lonely, weed-choked graveyard, his possessions stolen by his charlady and the undertaker.
Born in 1936 to a charlady and a Birkenhead bricklayer who served on a minesweeper for most of her childhood, Ms Jackson's first jobs after leaving her local grammar school at 16 were behind the counter at Boots and the bar at a local Butlin's.
She played of course (from 1964 to 1987) the Rovers Return charlady Hilda Ogden, an inveterate gossip in curlers and headscarf, and although not quite a battleaxe (despite making husband Stan's life traditionally miserable), always ready to do screeching battle with anyone or anything that crossed her.
"Thirty years ago there were only a few night buses for print workers, charladies and dockers," says Sir Peter Hendy, London's transport commissioner.
It's a sorry tale that begins with the passing of the 1927 Cinematographic Films Act - and ends with the creation of a class of pictures so transcendentally boring, they were projected in empty cinemas while the charladies Hoovered.
