waitress
Example Sentences
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“They are not allowing any of my family members here,” said Anastazia Bununsi, an Eritrean waitress who came to Kampala as an asylum seeker.
When she finished in 2001, she knew she couldn’t afford graduate school so she worked as a waitress while attempting to convince film students to let her shoot their thesis films.
From Los Angeles Times
She took jobs in the low-wage services sector, working first as a waitress in Florida, then a maid in Maine and finally as a retail associate at a Walmart store in Minnesota.
Her big break in film came in a waitress role in Martin Scorsese's Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore in 1974, which earned her an Oscar nomination.
From BBC
“People in love are boring,” she notes of a steady, chatty customer known simply as the waitress.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
