sitter

Example Sentences

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A plant sitter who eats her clients’ plants while insisting she’s very good at her job.

From Los Angeles Times • May 14, 2026

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

From MarketWatch • May 13, 2026

This is evident in the portraits themselves, which all take the same form: Neck-up views with the sitter looking directly at us.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 20, 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

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