How to Use sitter in a Sentence

sitter

noun

• They hired a sitter so they could go out.
• Your problem is with the owner of the lap, not the sitter on it.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 20 Aug. 2021
• Get a sitter for an evening and hang out with your friends.
  — Carolyn Hax, Washington Post, 12 Nov. 2022
• 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
• 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
• 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
• How long does a teenage pet sitter usually wait to get paid?
  — Amy Dickinson, Detroit Free Press, 9 Sep. 2023
• The sitter pulled Sarah aside to say that her son had recounted being abused by Sarah’s boyfriend.
  — Jose A. Del Real, Washington Post, 13 Sep. 2022
• Emily O’Brien, 26, uses the Orange Line to get to her side jobs as a cat sitter and house sitter.
  — Taylor Dolven, BostonGlobe.com, 3 Aug. 2022
• Leonard said she was told a dog sitter opened a cottage door and Zoey bolted outside.
  — Carlos R. Muñoz, BostonGlobe.com, 8 Aug. 2022
• Your neighbor has lost what sounds like could have been a good and reliable cat sitter.
  — Amy Dickinson, Anchorage Daily News, 9 Sep. 2023
• Rossi became the eighth different pole-sitter to start the season.
  — Dave Kallmann, Journal Sentinel, 11 June 2022
• All in all, this pen would be great for puppy training, or for new dog owners or dog sitters.
  — Rennie Dyball, Peoplemag, 31 Aug. 2023
• The party that is judged to be the aggressor could alienate fence sitters that view the war from a moral perspective.
  — Andrew F. Krepinevich, Foreign Affairs, 12 Dec. 2023
• There was at least one adult at the home, although police believed that person was a dog-sitter.
  — Thomas Jewell, cleveland, 9 Sep. 2022
• The evening's interrupted when Love gets a call that a drunk Dottie grabbed Henry from the sitter.
  — Sara Netzley, EW.com, 15 Oct. 2021
• Reliable pet sitters are worth their weight in Friskies.
  — Amy Dickinson, Anchorage Daily News, 9 Sep. 2023
• Rover is an app that connects pet owners with sitters or walkers for part-time gigs.
  — Laura Begley Bloom, Forbes, 22 Feb. 2023
• Anyone — including a sitter — could have offered it to the child.
  — Amy Dickinson, The Mercury News, 24 Jan. 2024

Last Updated: 28 May 2024