sitter

Example Sentences

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Caley could not take time off immediately, so the two were searching for a last-minute sitter.

From MarketWatch • May 13, 2026

He was fortunate to still be there after Harry Brook dropped a sitter in the slips, the latest in a long line of fielding blunders by England this series, before starting to play his shots.

From Barron's • Dec. 17, 2025

The TV set was my sitter, and I became obsessed with movies.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 16, 2025

The nearly 70-year retrospective of portrait drawings in pencil and paint by Los Angeles artist Don Bachardy revealed the works to be like performances: Both artist and sitter participated in putting on a pictorial show.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 8, 2025

The hulk, the hunching sitter, brought a third box now, to rest his feet on.

From "The Woman Warrior" by Maxine Hong Kingston