How to Use house sitter in a Sentence

house sitter

noun
  • The owner was out of town but a house sitter noticed the theft and talked with police.
    Bruce Geiselman, cleveland.com, 16 Dec. 2017
  • Our house sitter told us the house is overrun by vultures.
    Tony Doris, Harper's magazine, 28 Oct. 2019
  • Emily O’Brien, 26, uses the Orange Line to get to her side jobs as a cat sitter and house sitter.
    Taylor Dolven, BostonGlobe.com, 3 Aug. 2022
  • Some of these sites charge house sitters only, some also charge the owner.
    Kathleen Pender, SFChronicle.com, 1 Feb. 2020
  • The site works in a similar way to Airbnb, with both the owner and the house sitter leaving reviews for each other.
    Tamara Hardingham-Gill, CNN, 5 Feb. 2022
  • The owner was out of town and Kanto had escaped from a house sitter, who was trying to locate him.
    Nicole Soto, azcentral, 18 Nov. 2019
  • The man recognized the woman as a house sitter at the neighbor’s home on Whitlock Avenue, police said.
    Jesse Leavenworth, courant.com, 31 Jan. 2022
  • Try house sitting One of the easiest ways to earn some extra money is to offer your services as a house sitter.
    Katie Winterburn, San Diego Union-Tribune, 16 Sep. 2019
  • Barns reminded council that there are residents who do not know their neighbors or have the resources to hire a house sitter.
    Ryan Nickerson, Houston Chronicle, 11 Aug. 2020
  • CBS News reports that Carter's house sitter called police after finding his body.
    Aimée Lutkin, ELLE, 6 Nov. 2022
  • People who have seasonal homes sometimes hire house sitters to stay in their houses during the off-season.
    Amy Dickinson, Detroit Free Press, 13 Oct. 2017
  • TrustedHousesitters is a website that pairs those with pets that are going away for an extended amount of time with a house sitter.
    Elizabeth Gulino, House Beautiful, 27 Mar. 2019
  • Winter is the best time to get started as a house sitter because people are traveling to visit family.
    Jasmine Browley, Essence, 14 Dec. 2021
  • Many people hire seasonal house sitters during the off-season, because of the substantial risks to leaving a house empty.
    Amy Dickinson, Detroit Free Press, 1 June 2020
  • Brittany takes a job as a house sitter and dog-walker, and soon learns there’s a third-shift sitter (Utkarsh Ambudkar) of minimal ambition but detectable gallantry.
    Michael Phillips, chicagotribune.com, 26 Aug. 2019
  • Other Houston-area homeowners have also returned in the wake of the hurricane to find uninvited house sitters, experts said.
    Marilia Brocchetto, CNN, 2 Sep. 2017
  • Authorities later said a house sitter found a man in the bathtub in the home and resuscitation efforts were unsuccessful.
    Christopher Weber, Alicia Rancilio, Anchorage Daily News, 6 Nov. 2022
  • Being a professional house sitter, and sharing what that entails online, has inspired countless other Black women to follow in her footsteps.
    Essence, 11 Feb. 2022

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