How to Use operator in a Sentence

operator

noun

• Call the operator for the phone number.
• She's quite an operator—no one else could have gotten them all to agree to the project.
• Operator, please connect me with extension 123.
• The 911 operator told the teen that help was on the way, the suit states.
  — Jonathan Edwards, Washington Post, 6 Oct. 2023
• From there, find a tour operator to take you to the park.
  — Scott McMurren, Anchorage Daily News, 19 Nov. 2022
• There is no way for an operator to tell that this wasn’t just a pile of snow.
  — Zachariah Hughes, Anchorage Daily News, 31 Dec. 2022
• This means that operators will not have to maintain sight of the drones.
  — April Roach, CNBC, 15 Aug. 2024
• The operator of the food truck did not want to comment on the proposal.
  — Jordyn Noennig, Journal Sentinel, 31 Mar. 2023
• Cruise operator Carnival had the strongest week of the names that made the list with a gain of more than 13%.
  — Brian Evans, CNBC, 11 Oct. 2024
• The costs have led to tensions between the company and operators in the past.
  — Danielle Wiener-Bronner, CNN, 22 Sep. 2023
• Typically, a drone has to be in the line of sight of its operator.
  — Naheed Rajwani-Dharsi, Axios, 2 Aug. 2024
• Most recently, a TriMet operator was stabbed at the end of her route on March 13.
  — Chris Pandolfo, Fox News, 23 Mar. 2023
• What did all this mean for cinema operator stocks in the past year?
  — Etan Vlessing, The Hollywood Reporter, 29 Dec. 2023
• Regions on the Texas map were based on the state grid operator’s list of counties within each of the grid’s weather zones.
  — Gabriel J.x. Dance Zach Levitt, New York Times, 9 Apr. 2023
• Passengers called 911, pulled open doors and tried to call the train operator.
  — Sarah Freishtat, Chicago Tribune, 27 Dec. 2022
• Thomas describes the dairy—and its owner and operator Russ Kohler—as embodying the ethics of the region.
  — The Editors, Outside Online, 23 Dec. 2024
• The owner of the island, meanwhile, failed to make sure the operators had examined the risks properly, the judge added.
  — Chris Lau, CNN, 1 Mar. 2024
• The county and the operators arranged a new concessions agreement, which could run for up to two years.
  — Stephanie Breijo, Los Angeles Times, 27 Oct. 2023
• Pellot had told the 911 operator his wife may have taken some pills.
  — Erin Moriarty, CBS News, 16 Dec. 2023
• Such programs are licensed by the state and operators can care for up to 14 children at a time, sometimes some as young as 2 weeks old.
  — Jenny Gold, Los Angeles Times, 12 June 2023
• With the trip becoming a mass public protest, the operator was forced to recant.
  — John Hopewell, Variety, 30 Dec. 2024
• The fate of the others is not certain, with landlords looking for new operators.
  — Tom Brueggemann, IndieWire, 1 July 2024
• The two special forces operators were climbing on a ladder to board a vessel while on a mission in the Gulf of Aden when high waves knocked one into the sea.
  — Bradford Betz, Fox News, 22 Jan. 2024
• The project also calls for the operator stations to be updated.
  — Mike Jones, Arkansas Online, 12 Aug. 2023
• The first was to the White House operator, who put him in touch with the Marine major on Hendrickson’s personal staff.
  — Elliot Ackerman, WIRED, 6 Feb. 2024
• Neither the owners nor the operators could be reached for comment.
  — Lyndsay Winkley, San Diego Union-Tribune, 12 May 2023
• The sun, camera, lens, shutter, and silvered surface seemed to do all the work; the operator appeared merely to get the process going.
  — Anthony W. Lee, WIRED, 27 Dec. 2022
• At faster speeds, the plane operator will need to subscribe to an Aviation Business plan, which can start at $2,000 per month.
  — Michael Kan, PCMAG, 11 Dec. 2024
• Police said the man had been walking on the roadbed of the tracks as a northbound D train was entering the station, but the train operator was unable to stop the train in time to avoid him.
  — Nicholas Williams, New York Daily News, 11 Dec. 2024
• The waiver allows drone operators to fly at night, fly over people, and operate drones outside the line of sight.
  — Louis Casiano, Fox News, 28 Dec. 2024

Last Updated: 15 Jan 2025