Sentence examples for some maid from inspiring English sources

Some maid has drawn the blackout curtains.

I remember the Xerox machine at the office when I was brought in on the odd day when neither my mother nor some maid or babysitter could keep me and I had the girl's eyeview sneak peak of what the working world was all about for the mad men..

Surely the movie will need some maids, Vera thinks.

Some maids are able to secure between 8,000 rupees to 12,000 rupees a month.

With Kuwaiti families staying up into the early hours of the morning, some maids say they cook more, work longer hours and sleep less.

But some maids disagreed, saying an open door can discourage a guest from misbehaving because another guest might be walking by outside.

Some maids are encouraged to become zhuangzhong (stand-in sex workers during busy periods), and those who agree to fulfil such a dual role are highly sought after.

Some maids manage to flee abusive employers but, bereft of funds and without documents or social networks, they have trouble seeking help or getting home.

Not for nothing are some maids known as slaves of honor, but this kind of cajoling is a recent development on the wedding front.

Some maids have their own tiny rooms, but in larger households helpers sleep together in bunk beds.Last year, after a lengthy legal battle by a maid from the Philippines who had been working in Hong Kong for more than 17 years, the territory's highest court ruled that foreign domestic-helpers could not acquire permanent residency (and thus the better wages that go with it).

Some maids make ridiculous demands, such as large loans from their mistresses (one wanted the air fare to visit her parents); some mistresses are simply too rude for anyone to stay, no matter how much they pay (among the worst, apparently, are those who used to be poor themselves).