How to Use server in a Sentence

server

noun
  • She asked our server for another glass of wine.
  • Plex has two parts: the Plex server and the Plex client.
    Jim Rossman, Dallas News, 23 Apr. 2023
  • The man gave his server a credit card to pay the bill, but the card was denied.
    cleveland, 13 Oct. 2022
  • When the side that serves has a score in an even number, the server for that team plays from the right side of the court.
    Lisa Mulcahy, Good Housekeeping, 9 Nov. 2022
  • To pay the bills, Schier works as a server in a restaurant.
    Josh Rottenberg, Los Angeles Times, 9 Aug. 2023
  • Also, servers who never tell me their name, the soup of the day, the fish of the day, etc. are not adding value.
    Ticked Off, Orlando Sentinel, 8 Jan. 2024
  • At that speed, the ball takes just 0.64 second to leave the server and hit the opposite far end of the court.
    Mark Fischetti, Scientific American, 1 Oct. 2024
  • Our server told us the room was locked with no other way in or out.
    Julie Jordan, People.com, 17 Oct. 2024
  • Bartenders chat with guests while servers bustle about with trays of food and drinks.
    The Arizona Republic, 26 Feb. 2024
  • Seinfeld gets testy when a server tries to push the toast on him.
    Madison Roberts, Peoplemag, 25 Dec. 2022
  • Schwartz and Sandoval were the first of the Vanderpump Rules servers and bartenders to break out on their own.
    Sam Burros, Peoplemag, 7 Aug. 2023
  • Ask your bartender or server if a drink is made with syrup or from a mix.
    Jaclyn London, M.s., R.d., Good Housekeeping, 9 Jan. 2023
  • Russia also has not shut down access to the Counter-Strike servers.
    Peter Aitken, Fox News, 4 May 2023
  • Of course, this trend hasn’t been good for restaurant servers who in some cases have seen their pay drop.
    Laurie Ochoa, Los Angeles Times, 17 Feb. 2024
  • What to expect: The manager will then take it up with the server.
    Morgan Hines, USA TODAY, 19 Oct. 2022
  • Your device and those of your colleagues are sending video to Zoom’s servers.
    Barath Raghavan, IEEE Spectrum, 5 Nov. 2023
  • The next server in the rotation then serves the ball and play continues.
    Emily Deletter, The Enquirer, 27 Oct. 2022
  • Later that morning, the same server found what appeared to be a live mouse stuck on a trap along the wall of the restaurant.
    Cindy Carcamo, Los Angeles Times, 4 Dec. 2023
  • Our server explained the process, noting that each dish was made fresh.
    Amy Drew Thompson, Orlando Sentinel, 27 June 2024
  • Cassie was a 21-year-old server who lived with her parents, and Oliver was 18 years old and still in high school.
    Bysydney Lake, Fortune, 3 Sep. 2023
  • Chats, Groups, and Channels are stored on Telegram's servers, and the company holds the keys to those messages.
    PCMAG, 20 May 2024
  • In 2017, a number of Cloudflare servers were knocked offline.
    Lara Williams, The Mercury News, 26 July 2024
  • Across the globe, data centers are stacked to the ceiling with shelf after shelf of humming servers.
    IEEE Spectrum, 16 Nov. 2023
  • Consider a company that stores users’ emails in the cloud — that is, on a vast array of servers.
    Michael Greshko, Quanta Magazine, 10 Jan. 2024
  • The server didn’t want to be named due to fear of retaliation.
    Cindy Carcamo, Los Angeles Times, 3 July 2023
  • They can be used to make all sorts of things, like smart home control hubs, DIY cameras, home media servers, and more.
    Jess Weatherbed, The Verge, 15 May 2024
  • And yet have we not all, at different times, been takers and givers, server and served?
    Ligaya Mishan Kyoko Hamada Victoria Petro-Conroy, New York Times, 10 Feb. 2023
  • Blaylock said data is now backed up to a cloud server instead of the district’s servers.
    Noah Alcala Bach, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 8 Mar. 2024
  • The company claimed its cloud will be the first to use Nvidia’s Blackwell system to power its AI servers.
    Jeff Marks, CNBC, 31 Oct. 2024
  • On a larger scale, any company will have to deal with the price of connecting to an API or running their own servers, multiplied across every player.
    Jay Castello, The Verge, 17 Oct. 2024

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