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
  • 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
  • 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
  • Your device and those of your colleagues are sending video to Zoom’s servers.
    Barath Raghavan, IEEE Spectrum, 5 Nov. 2023
  • 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
  • Her mother was a server at the same restaurant growing up.
    Sean Neumann, Peoplemag, 3 Sep. 2024
  • The question, of course, is whether the Berkowitz touch will work when the fare is frozen, delivered by truck — not a smiling server — and the Legal name isn’t on the box.
    Larry Edelman, BostonGlobe.com, 20 Mar. 2023
  • The 21-year-old server sang the song at her grandfather's funeral.
    Oliver Steele, USA TODAY, 2 May 2023
  • The friendliest and most knowledgeable servers and bartenders?
    Matt Leclercq, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 9 July 2024
  • Fornite Chapter 5 Season 2 was set to release on March 8, but with servers down what's going on with the game?
    Dina Kaur, The Arizona Republic, 8 Mar. 2024
  • There was a large data center with many cages and rows of servers housing and processing the data for the business.
    Ben Debow, Forbes, 11 Dec. 2023
  • Animals are allowed in dining areas with dedicated servers that do not walk through other dining or food-prep areas.
    Tribune News Service, The Mercury News, 4 Oct. 2024

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