How to Use waiter in a Sentence

waiter

noun

• And the waiter is sort of the straight man among the ladies.
  — Merve Emre, The New Yorker, 1 Oct. 2023
• The waiter brought the beer and set it on the table and went away.
  — New York Times, 14 Oct. 2022
• The cheers died down as the waiter walked past the table.
  — New York Times, 18 Feb. 2022
• The episode, in which the singer plays a waiter, will air on April 19 on CBS.
  — Rachel Desantis, Peoplemag, 28 Mar. 2023
• And the waiter, my friend, said, 'Oh my God, my best friend is the cook, the chef, here.
  — Dave Quinn, PEOPLE.com, 24 Feb. 2022
• Still, the waiter returned to push the bread and butter.
  — Noah Lederman, Bon Appétit, 9 June 2022
• Ask anyone at the Villa Igiea — the concierge, the waiter, the maître d'.
  — Stanley Stewart, Travel + Leisure, 24 Apr. 2022
• Then the waiter comes over and asks if the roach would like to order dessert.
  — Charlie Dektar, The New Yorker, 2 Jan. 2025
• For the waiters, a couple of lumps of sugar would do as a tip.
  — Alan Philps, Town & Country, 5 July 2023
• At the café the waiter who brought her orange juice knew her by name.
  — Stanley Stewart, Condé Nast Traveler, 22 Mar. 2021
• At the cafés and restaurants, the waiters knew enough to seat him by himself.
  — Greg Jackson, The New Yorker, 3 Nov. 2024
• For dinner, he’s dressed like a waiter and ready to fight.
  — Emma Soren, Vulture, 15 Apr. 2024
• There’s an olive tree there, which a waiter tells me is over 100 years old.
  — Elise Taylor, Vogue, 20 June 2024
• To be an actor is to be a waiter, some pursuers of the craft might say.
  — Chelsey Sanchez, Harper's BAZAAR, 4 Sep. 2019
• In the first, former waiter Tong Ying-kit was jailed for nine years.
  — NBC News, 12 Nov. 2021
• In the first, former waiter Tong Ying-kit, was jailed for nine years.
  — Reuters, CNN, 11 Nov. 2021
• One day at the Willard Hotel, a waiter served him a cup of something warm and brown.
  — Eliza McGraw, Washington Post, 20 Dec. 2022
• Just then the waiter approaches, and asks if the girls are ready to order.
  — Kate Linthicum, Los Angeles Times, 11 Feb. 2024
• When the waiter placed the check on the table, nobody moved for a few seconds.
  — Amy Dickinson, The Denver Post, 9 Feb. 2020
• Offset had the waiter bring out the final course for the birthday girl.
  — Jasmine Grant, Essence, 14 Oct. 2019
• Lenker got a job as a back waiter at a restaurant on the Upper West Side.
  — Amanda Petrusich, The New Yorker, 12 Oct. 2020
• Then a waiter knocked on my door to say that the kitchen had canceled breakfast.
  — Sonia Faleiro, Harper's Magazine, 23 June 2020
• For the face of the product, the founders chose Frank Brown, a head waiter at a high-end Chicago restaurant.
  — cleveland, 17 June 2020
• The waiters, all standing at the ready in crisp whites, keep the liquid courage flowing.
  — Megan Spurrell, Condé Nast Traveler, 14 Oct. 2019
• In the wrong context, all-black can make someone look like a cater-waiter.
  — Clifford Prince King, Los Angeles Times, 9 Feb. 2023
• The waiter then moves to the gentleman sitting next to her and repeats the process.
  — Jeremy Repanich, Robb Report, 25 Jan. 2022
• The other waiter speaks no French, which is a good thing for a French restaurant, so the two of us point and guess.
  — Kevin Fisher-Paulson, SFChronicle.com, 26 Aug. 2019
• The Grizz is where most people start their Black Bear journey, the waiter said.
  — Mike Sutter, San Antonio Express-News, 2 Oct. 2024
• Their sweet, smoky fragrance arrives before the waiter does.
  — Lisa Gutierrez, Kansas City Star, 2 Jan. 2025
• According to lore, back in the 70s, the house wine came in glorious magnums, and waiters would draw a line on the bottle to mark the volume guests drank, then charge accordingly.
  — airmail.news, 28 Dec. 2024

Last Updated: 14 Feb 2025