sitter
Example Sentences
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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
Even if she had paid for a sitter for 10 hours at $25 an hour, she would have saved thousands.
From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 28, 2025
Matt Short should have been run out without scoring in the same over but Shubman Gill missed a sitter with the throw and he survived.
From Barron's • Oct. 25, 2025
Henri the painter was occupied, for Holman’s Department Store had employed not a flag-pole sitter but a flag-pole skater.
From "Cannery Row" by John Steinbeck
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
