sitter
Example Sentences
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One subsequent sitter would be Henry’s second wife, Anne Boleyn, who had reportedly hated More so much that upon his execution she threw his portrait to the ground.
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 27, 2026
It wasn't Nancy's fault that Johnny Kenny missed an easy chance or that Daizen Maeda spurned a sitter.
From BBC • Dec. 17, 2025
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 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
One day his parents left him with a sitter and took the P & W high-speed trolley into the city.
From "Maniac Magee" by Jerry Spinelli
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
