How to Use sir in a Sentence

sir

noun
  • At the time, the sir stood several feet from the plate.
    John Shea, San Francisco Chronicle, 18 Sep. 2022
  • The 28-year-old sells private jets (sir, the climate!) and likes hangin' with the boys as much as Colleen likes hangin' with the girls.
    Elizabeth Logan, Glamour, 28 Oct. 2022
  • It’s all guys, there’s no females back there at all, sir.
    Katie Hafner, Scientific American, 18 Nov. 2021
  • Yes sir, life is good in the desert, where fans are returning to Chase Field to root for the home team again.
    Bob Nightengale, USA TODAY, 5 June 2023
  • Welcome back to Meet the Press two days before the election, sir.
    NBC News, 6 Nov. 2022
  • On one of these plays, J. R. Smith stepped out of the way, as if to say, go right ahead, sir, enjoy yourself.
    Harvey Araton, New York Times, 2 June 2017
  • God bless you sir for putting so much effort into this race.
    Paul Steinhauser, Fox News, 18 May 2022
  • So what has changed to suddenly put you on the side of questioning the results of this election, sir?
    NBC News, 3 Jan. 2021
  • The Trump administration has tried this a few times, sir.
    Callum Borchers, Washington Post, 22 May 2017
  • My romantic sense of the world is strong, yes sir, but it’s no longer tethered to some external source.
    Heather Havrilesky, The Cut, 30 Aug. 2017
  • That ‘sir or ma’am’ gave me so much, because bluster [in action movie heroes] was the order of the day and this was the opposite.
    James Hibberd, The Hollywood Reporter, 29 Aug. 2023
  • This is what happens, sir, when a White House starts losing, losing, losing.
    WSJ, 15 Feb. 2017
  • Thank you for coming on and sharing your perspective, sir.
    NBC News, 27 Nov. 2022
  • But these are not ordinary times, and you, sir, are anything but an ordinary man.
    Oliver Gettell, EW.com, 7 July 2017
  • Senator King, as always sir, thank you for coming on and sharing your views.
    NBC News, 18 June 2017
  • Thanks for coming on and sharing your perspective, sir.
    NBC News, 29 Nov. 2020
  • Senator Cruz, congratulations on the book and welcome back to Meet the Press, sir.
    NBC News, 11 Oct. 2020
  • Ron Klain, chief of staff for President Biden, thank you for coming on and sharing your perspective, sir.
    NBC News, 24 Jan. 2021
  • Well, sir, does Netflix have an astronaut drama for you.
    Kristen Baldwin, EW.com, 28 Aug. 2020
  • Finally, sir, does the FDA need to be doing more to get full authorization for those vaccines?
    ABC News, 8 Aug. 2021
  • Foreign Minister Kuleba, welcome to Meet the Press, sir.
    NBC News, 10 Apr. 2022
  • Okay, sir — those two sentiments can't really co-exist in the same statement.
    Kristen Baldwin, EW.com, 14 Sep. 2022
  • If you’ve been known to meticulously adjust the bedroom thermostat, this sleeping bag is for you, good sir.
    Mike Richard, Men's Health, 18 Nov. 2022
  • Well, sir, typically, a vaccine is named after the disease that it is supposed to protect against.
    Bruce Y. Lee, Forbes, 12 Apr. 2021
  • Many thousands are in want of common necessaries; hundreds of thousands are in want of common comforts, sir.
    Star Tribune, 24 Dec. 2020
  • Unclench your perfectly chiseled jaw and lighten up, sir.
    Maggie Fremont, Vulture, 6 May 2021
  • No offense sir, but was wondering what’d the situation be if my response was typed in Kannada!!
    Ananya Bhattacharya, Quartz, 28 Apr. 2022
  • If Johnson senior receives his knighthood and becomes a sir, this won’t technically fit the nepo baby framework.
    Howard Murphy, Rolling Stone, 20 Apr. 2023
  • Who would have predicted, for example, that a Broadway musical that 99 percent of the population hasn’t even been able to see (Hamilton) would cause such a worldwide stir, sir?
    Brian Raftery, WIRED, 26 Aug. 2016
  • No sir, and the reason is, different audiences treat music differently than 50 years ago.
    Mark Elibert, Billboard, 14 Feb. 2022

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