baby-sitter
Example Sentences
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But I do think we have a bigger expectation of what we want when we go out, when we get the baby-sitter, when we pay for parking.
From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 2, 2024
"We all have weekly shifts assigned and there is no limit to the number of hours we can work," says Pizza, who boosts her income helping out as a baby-sitter, cleaner and waiter.
From Reuters • Jan. 31, 2023
“It can be rather frustrating to an experienced and normally effective mother to see a young baby-sitter or day care worker doing better with her child than she,” Ames writes.
From Slate • Feb. 17, 2021
In the poignant first story, “Saying Goodbye to Yang,” the family’s android baby-sitter suffers a sudden, fatal malfunction one morning at the breakfast table.
From Seattle Times • Oct. 7, 2016
Later, when the baby was a little older, maybe they’d get a baby-sitter and Johnnie Mae could work for a while until they were doing better.
From "145th Street: Short Stories" by Walter Dean Myers
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