sitter

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This is evident in the portraits themselves, which all take the same form: Neck-up views with the sitter looking directly at us.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 20, 2026

It wasn't Nancy's fault that Johnny Kenny missed an easy chance or that Daizen Maeda spurned a sitter.

From BBC • Dec. 17, 2025

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

The nearly 70-year retrospective of portrait drawings in pencil and paint by Los Angeles artist Don Bachardy revealed the works to be like performances: Both artist and sitter participated in putting on a pictorial show.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 8, 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