How to Use attendant in a Sentence

attendant

1 of 2 noun
  • She let the parking attendant park her car.
  • Even the younger attendants are old-school.
    — Tom Sietsema, Washington Post, 17 Jan. 2026
  • Arrues said the attendant made her way to the open bins.
    — Colson Thayer, PEOPLE, 30 Sep. 2025
  • The attendant then turned away from the man to walk down the aisle toward the front of the plane.
    — Michael Murney, Chron, 22 Sep. 2022
  • One attendant moved a heat lamp beside her to try to stop her shaking.
    — Dell Cameron, WIRED, 4 Oct. 2023
  • Trains slid by on the tracks, and an attendant droned on an overhead speaker.
    — Kamila Hrabchuk, Washington Post, 1 Jan. 2024
  • Our suite attendant fawns over her gold bangles and earrings.
    — Janice Wald Henderson, Travel + Leisure, 23 Feb. 2023
  • An attendant in a parking lot told me a regular car can park in the spot.
    — Jim Radcliffe, Oc Register, 17 Apr. 2026
  • The distracted attendant let all of us in.
    — Zach Helfand, New Yorker, 24 Nov. 2025
  • The distracted attendant let all of us in.
    — Zach Helfand, New Yorker, 26 Nov. 2025
  • Amid the tangle of concrete and steel, there is a welcome tent with a young attendant.
    — Patrik Jonsson, The Christian Science Monitor, 10 Mar. 2023
  • After a man used the store restroom, the station attendant grabbed his arm and told him to get out.
    — Nollyanne Delacruz, Mercury News, 27 May 2026
  • Three Cofán—an older man and his two young attendants—were waiting for us on the bank.
    — Stanley Stewart, Travel + Leisure, 10 Jan. 2026
  • The parking lot attendant was not charged with any crime, but Young was charged with felony murder.
    — Carol Robinson | [email protected], al, 1 Jan. 2023
  • Look at our parking attendants.
    — Matt Schooley, CBS News, 27 Jan. 2026
  • Full-service first-class car with a private attendant and dining.
    — Phil Kloer, ajc, 16 Aug. 2022
  • When Marcelo asks about it, the gas-station attendant shrugs.
    — Elena Clavarino, Air Mail, 14 Mar. 2026
  • Her attendant then bound the parchment gently around her belly.
    — Literary Hub, 18 Mar. 2026
  • The gallery attendant gently touched my shoulder.
    — Helen Molesworth, Artforum, 1 Dec. 2025
  • It is served by a uniformed attendant out of an airplane-style beverage cart.
    — Lilit Marcus, CNN, 30 Mar. 2023
  • Stiffed the whole staff…even Peppino the bathroom attendant.
    — Wesley Stenzel, Entertainment Weekly, 21 Feb. 2026
  • Moments later, an attendant was at my table with a slender glass cloche, filled with smoke.
    — Tom Sietsema, Washington Post, 23 Jan. 2023
  • The restaurant chain gets top marks for such fields as short-order cook and cafeteria attendant.
    — Daniel De Visé, USA Today, 29 June 2026
  • The complaint says agents routinely leave keys in their bureau cars in the garage so that attendants can move them around.
    — Paul Duggan, Washington Post, 7 Feb. 2024
  • On the road, clubhouse attendants work with the Phillies’ staff to figure out where to place players.
    — Charlotte Varnes, New York Times, 8 Oct. 2025
  • My plane was only half full, so the attendant simply printed me a second ticket for no charge.
    — Shelby Grad, Los Angeles Times, 3 Feb. 2026
  • After climbing into a stainless-steel tub, the attendant pulled a plug.
    — Tribune News Service, Baltimore Sun, 26 Mar. 2026
  • Her narrative also laid bare the toll that isolation can take on the attendants who keep ships safe.
    — The New Yorker, 20 Nov. 2023
  • You're invited to handpick fruit by the gallon, but there's no attendant.
    — Leigh Ann Henion, Southern Living, 14 Aug. 2023
  • You're invited to handpick fruit by the gallon, but there's no attendant.
    — Leigh Ann Henion, Southern Living, 9 May 2026

attendant

2 of 2 adjective
  • The town is trying to deal with the population boom and the attendant increase in traffic.
  • The attendant shot both teens, killing Guest and wounding Young.
    — Carol Robinson | [email protected], al, 21 Feb. 2022
  • The show ran late, of course, with the attendant Civic Center over-time costs.
    — Bart Bull, SPIN, 10 Feb. 2023
  • His legal woes and their attendant distractions have not gone away.
    — Richard N. Bond, CNN, 23 Mar. 2022
  • Even sleeping under the stars, without all the attendant trekking, might help.
    — Arthur C. Brooks, The Atlantic, 11 Aug. 2022
  • So when an attendant phones in sick or is left stranded in a stormy region, there’s no one left to staff the plane in their stead.
    — Andrew Brinker, BostonGlobe.com, 23 June 2022
  • The Lodge, the largest studio on the grounds, as well as an attendant gourmet kitchen and upstairs lounge.
    — Melinda Newman, Billboard, 10 Oct. 2022
  • And yet, even the most outlandish of these bags has trouble being heard over the din of its attendant outfit.
    — Nick Haramis, New York Times, 8 Nov. 2021
  • That makes dirty bulking—and its attendant buildup of fat—a less attractive option.
    — Yasmin Tayag, The Atlantic, 17 Oct. 2025
  • Some of the ghost quitters are unhappy and would love for nothing more than to leave, but are afraid of the attendant risks.
    — Jack Kelly, Forbes, 4 Aug. 2022
  • It’s connected to confidence, with its attendant rush of dopamine, and to joy.
    — Louisa Thomas, The New Yorker, 11 Feb. 2024
  • As if the movies’ only hope is to latch onto old playthings and their attendant comfy feelings?
    — Stephanie Zacharek, Time, 13 July 2023
  • Pon is forced to sell the car and attendant parts in order to pay his hotel bill and travel back to Europe.
    — Alexander Stoklosa, Car and Driver, 31 Aug. 2023
  • Tickets for the live awards show and its attendant events in Las Vegas are available here.
    — Chris Willman, Variety, 22 Apr. 2026
  • That should be a big enough number to secure first place at the box office, as well as all the attendant bragging rights that come with that perch.
    — Brent Lang, Variety, 17 June 2022
  • Much post-binge myth is made around the cheeseburger-with-the-works and its attendant bucket of home fries as the silver bullet.
    — Guy Martin, Forbes, 27 Nov. 2023
  • Would make a lovely fiefdom for Rubio or another attendant lord to rule in his spare time.
    — Alexandra Petri, The Atlantic, 12 Jan. 2026
  • The industry was ravaged by the pandemic and attendant decline in travel over the past year and a half.
    — Diego Mendoza-Moyers, San Antonio Express-News, 22 Oct. 2021
  • The pandemic and the public’s attendant reliance on video calls has raised a question — where does Zoom go from here?
    — Aidin Vaziri, Andy Reinhardt, Erin Allday, San Francisco Chronicle, 4 Feb. 2022
  • Age’s attendant regrets and hopes have spurred a crisis inside Clarissa.
    — Hillary Kelly, The Atlantic, 5 Aug. 2025
  • Data is the lifeblood of your business and the attendant stakeholders are going to generate loads more of it.
    — Clint Boulton, Forbes, 3 Aug. 2022
  • Yet that is exactly what appears to be happing in Ukraine, with attendant failures.
    — James Stavridis, Time, 11 Apr. 2022
  • But for all his athletic gifts, Jackson hasn’t been able to outrun the attendant risks of a more pass-first approach.
    — Jonas Shaffer, baltimoresun.com, 4 Nov. 2021
  • The herbs and oils are added in a specific order to copper cauldrons in a clean room with an attendant Ayurvedic doctor present.
    — Parizaad Khan Sethi, Allure, 7 Feb. 2022
  • The Washlet+Totos come with bidet seats and conceal attendant water lines and power cables.
    — Matthew Kronsberg, WSJ, 21 Jan. 2022
  • Much of his work over the years has involved measuring, and then warning about, the rate of AI progress and its many attendant risks.
    — Billy Perrigo, Time, 22 May 2026
  • The consequences of inflation—and the attendant risks—have long been understood.
    — Kevin Warsh, WSJ, 12 Dec. 2021
  • Predators know all too well that ego—and its attendant dread of public ridicule—can be a powerful deterrent to reporting art crimes.
    — Julie Belcove, Robb Report, 28 Aug. 2022
  • The naming of an actual crew, with all of its attendant pomp and circumstance, puts this flight on an inexorable path toward liftoff.
    — Eric Berger, Ars Technica, 3 Apr. 2023
  • Other scenarios are possible, too; the war and its attendant suffering do not look close to ending, and the war aims of both sides are far off.
    — John Hillen, National Review, 26 Mar. 2022

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