sitter

Example Sentences

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Caley could not take time off immediately, so the two were searching for a last-minute sitter.

From MarketWatch • May 13, 2026

In last year's Hundred her captain at Southern Brave, Georgia Adams, let her be her dog sitter - not a role you'd give to every teenager.

From BBC • May 10, 2026

In this case Raphael’s sympathetic depiction of his sitter highlights less his external qualities than his lively mind.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 24, 2026

He was fortunate to still be there after Harry Brook dropped a sitter in the slips, the latest in a long line of fielding blunders by England this series, before starting to play his shots.

From Barron's • Dec. 17, 2025

Henri the painter was occupied, for Holman’s Department Store had employed not a flag-pole sitter but a flag-pole skater.

From "Cannery Row" by John Steinbeck