How to Use sitter in a Sentence

sitter

noun

• They hired a sitter so they could go out.
• The sitter’s job was to stay in the room and monitor her around the clock.
  — Anna Claire Vollers | [e-mail], al, 26 Mar. 2020
• Your problem is with the owner of the lap, not the sitter on it.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 20 Aug. 2021
• The sitter should be told she’s not being paid to sleep on the job.
  — Abigail Van Buren, oregonlive, 25 Nov. 2019
• By then the sitter, a farmer and politician who lived near the artist, was dead.
  — Peter Saenger, WSJ, 21 May 2021
• Get a sitter for an evening and hang out with your friends.
  — Carolyn Hax, Washington Post, 12 Nov. 2022
• The process can take a year, more if the sitter and artist take a long time to complete a work.
  — Washington Post, 15 Nov. 2019
• The sitter left the door open at 3 a.m. while taking the dog out for a bathroom break.
  — David Faris, Newsweek, 10 July 2024
• Someone has to send a sitter home or pick up the kids from day care.
  — Laura Vanderkam, Fortune, 2 Aug. 2020
• Scott Dixon is the pole-sitter, earning the inside of the front row on the starting grid.
  — Scott Horner, The Indianapolis Star, 26 May 2021
• So line up a dog sitter and read on for how to stream Cruella.
  — John Lonsdale, Rolling Stone, 27 May 2021
• That means her children have to cut back their work hours or shell out for a sitter.
  — Karen Kaplan, Los Angeles Times, 29 Nov. 2022
• Simon is a full-time house and pet sitter, which is one way to beat the high cost of living in the Bay Area.
  — Kathleen Pender, SFChronicle.com, 1 Feb. 2020
• The woman and her husband packed their things and left their trip early to go to the sitter’s house.
  — Madeleine List, Orlando Sentinel, 19 Oct. 2022
• Where did Doctor go after the pet sitter and some neighbors chased him to the mouth of a canyon?
  — San Diego Union-Tribune, 22 July 2022
• Abbey will stay in Louisville with a dog sitter while Gregory spends a long day in the show ring.
  — Kirby Adams, The Courier-Journal, 10 Jan. 2022
• Put the portrait sitter’s name in the search box and click on family trees.
  — John Kelly, Washington Post, 18 Apr. 2023
• This is what in soccer is called a sitter — an easy shot, an open net from six yards.
  — Dylan Hernández Columnist, Los Angeles Times, 29 Aug. 2021
• The gold chain around the neck of this sitter, Maréchal Bonnivet, conveys wealth and status.
  — Washington Post, 25 May 2022
• On the first, Thiem missed a forehand sitter with Zverev stranded.
  — Ravi Ubha, CNN, 14 Sep. 2020
• There's the mom who is late to relieve the sitter, or a math quiz that must be aced to attend a Halloween dance.
  — Kelly Lawler, USA TODAY, 5 July 2020
• One of the assailants ordered the dog sitter to unlock her doors and threatened to shoot her.
  — Jasmine Hilton, Washington Post, 10 Dec. 2023
• Tawnya and her husband then raced out of their driveway to pick up their twins at a sitter’s home.
  — Washington Post, 13 Jan. 2022
• This happened right after my cat sitter left for the night.
  — Joey Nolfi, EW.com, 5 Apr. 2022
• That’s fine by Kyle Busch, the pole-sitter for Sunday’s Foxwoods 301.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 18 July 2021
• The baby is with the world's best sitter or grandparent.
  — Macaela MacKenzie, Glamour, 15 Feb. 2023
• She’s a cat-sitter; she’s on her third husband and already bored.
  — Washington Post, 16 Sep. 2021
• Healey helped out with her younger siblings, and got her first job at 10 as a baby sitter.
  — Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com, 2 June 2022
• There was no money to pay a baby sitter, or to sublet a room.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 18 Nov. 2020
• The sitter reports the pups just ran around in the back yard all day and basically watched themselves.
  — R29 Team, refinery29.com, 18 Mar. 2024

Last Updated: 9 Jun 2024