stewardess

Example Sentences

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On an airplane, recently, she noticed that when the stewardess came around offering coffee and tea, a surprising number of adults opted for hot chocolate.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 4, 2025

For the last year, they've been working with the National Theatre of Scotland to revive them, along with long-suffering stewardess Shona Spurtle and the unhinged Captain Hilary Duff.

From BBC • May 28, 2025

In 1958, when Mary Pat Laffey Inman became a stewardess — as they were then called — for Northwest Airlines, she was 20 years old and the clock was already ticking.

From New York Times • Feb. 19, 2024

David Zucker: My favorite has always been when the stewardess says, "I've never been so scared, and besides, I am 26 and I'm not married."

From Salon • Oct. 3, 2023

We were irreconcilably other, and never was it more obvious than when the three of us walked through the empty plane, the stewardess nodding sympathetically and gesturing us toward our row in the distant back.

From "The Fault in Our Stars" by John Green