On this page you'll find 6 example sentences with Nursemaid. Discover the meaning, synonyms such as nanny or nurse and how to use the word correctly in a sentence.
Nursemaid in a sentence
Nursemaid meaning
A woman or girl employed to care for children.
Using Nursemaid
- The main meaning on this page is: A woman or girl employed to care for children.
- Useful related words include: nanny, nurse, woman, adult female.
- In the example corpus, nursemaid often appears in combinations such as: his nursemaid, nursemaid to.
Context around Nursemaid
- Average sentence length in these examples: 26.3 words
- Position in the sentence: 2 start, 3 middle, 1 end
- Sentence types: 6 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Nursemaid
- In this selection, "nursemaid" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 26.3 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, concerned and offered stand out and add context to how "nursemaid" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include a concerned nursemaid a role and as a nursemaid to a. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "nursemaid" sits close to words such as aaas, aacc and aacs, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with nursemaid
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
Mary Holleback has doted on generations of baby sturgeon here like a concerned nursemaid, a role she fell into in 2006. (21 words)
Humez, p. 13. When she was five or six years old, Brodess hired her out as a nursemaid to a woman named "Miss Susan". (24 words)
On another occasion the nursemaid was blamed for dropping the baby onto a stone floor, injuring a shoulder that ever afterwards remained a little crooked. (25 words)
It is as if she just fades away, only to be mourned through her nursemaid – the one who was most likely responsible for feeding Ya’akov and Esav in their infancy. (31 words)
Reich’s opus was a fitting apotheosis to the adult who as a child fantasized about having sex with everything from the farm animals to his nursemaid to his mother. (30 words)
His nursemaid offered to take him to warmer climates abroad at his father's expense in the hope that this condition would not be so badly affected. (27 words)
Example sentences (6)
Mary Holleback has doted on generations of baby sturgeon here like a concerned nursemaid, a role she fell into in 2006.
It is as if she just fades away, only to be mourned through her nursemaid – the one who was most likely responsible for feeding Ya’akov and Esav in their infancy.
Reich’s opus was a fitting apotheosis to the adult who as a child fantasized about having sex with everything from the farm animals to his nursemaid to his mother.
His nursemaid offered to take him to warmer climates abroad at his father's expense in the hope that this condition would not be so badly affected.
Humez, p. 13. When she was five or six years old, Brodess hired her out as a nursemaid to a woman named "Miss Susan".
On another occasion the nursemaid was blamed for dropping the baby onto a stone floor, injuring a shoulder that ever afterwards remained a little crooked.
Common combinations with nursemaid
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- his nursemaid 2×
- nursemaid to 2×