sitter
Example Sentences
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But it was only by chance that I was by myself when my phone buzzed and displayed an on-screen message with some additional questions from the dog sitter I’d booked for our trip.
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 13, 2026
The TV set was my sitter, and I became obsessed with movies.
From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 16, 2025
Vangelis Pavlidis, their go-to striker, missed a sitter early on and then missed again and again.
From BBC • Nov. 15, 2025
A reliable pet sitter, especially at the last minute, is as hard to come by as a free street parking spot in Koreatown on a Friday night.
From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 2, 2025
And nobody else was talking either; no mention about the laundry workers who appeared and disappeared; no mention about the sitter.
From "The Woman Warrior" by Maxine Hong Kingston
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
