How to Use house sitter in a Sentence

house sitter

noun
  • The owner was out of town but a house sitter noticed the theft and talked with police.
    — Bruce Geiselman, cleveland.com, 16 Dec. 2017
  • Some of these sites charge house sitters only, some also charge the owner.
    — Kathleen Pender, SFChronicle.com, 1 Feb. 2020
  • The owner was out of town and Kanto had escaped from a house sitter, who was trying to locate him.
    — Nicole Soto, azcentral, 18 Nov. 2019
  • That’s when a text message arrived from our house sitter, informing me that my pet turkey had gone missing.
    — Marlise Kast-Myers, San Diego Union-Tribune, 28 Jan. 2024
  • Barns reminded council that there are residents who do not know their neighbors or have the resources to hire a house sitter.
    — Ryan Nickerson, Houston Chronicle, 11 Aug. 2020
  • People who have seasonal homes sometimes hire house sitters to stay in their houses during the off-season.
    — Amy Dickinson, Detroit Free Press, 13 Oct. 2017
  • The site works in a similar way to Airbnb, with both the owner and the house sitter leaving reviews for each other.
    — Tamara Hardingham-Gill, CNN, 5 Feb. 2022
  • Try house sitting One of the easiest ways to earn some extra money is to offer your services as a house sitter.
    — Katie Winterburn, San Diego Union-Tribune, 16 Sep. 2019
  • Winter is the best time to get started as a house sitter because people are traveling to visit family.
    — Jasmine Browley, Essence, 14 Dec. 2021
  • TrustedHousesitters is a website that pairs those with pets that are going away for an extended amount of time with a house sitter.
    — Elizabeth Gulino, House Beautiful, 27 Mar. 2019
  • The man recognized the woman as a house sitter at the neighbor’s home on Whitlock Avenue, police said.
    — Jesse Leavenworth, courant.com, 31 Jan. 2022
  • The typical Rover house sitter, for instance, charges somewhere in the neighborhood of $50 a night.
    — Kathy Kristof, San Diego Union-Tribune, 3 July 2023
  • Otherwise, have a friend or house sitter visit the home regularly, turning on lights in different parts of the home with each visit.
    — Nafeesah Allen, Better Homes & Gardens, 2 Sep. 2025
  • Otherwise, have a friend or house sitter visit the home regularly, turning on lights in different parts of the home with each visit.
    — Nafeesah Allen, Better Homes & Gardens, 25 Apr. 2026
  • Many people hire seasonal house sitters during the off-season, because of the substantial risks to leaving a house empty.
    — Amy Dickinson, Detroit Free Press, 1 June 2020
  • All About Melanie Martin Carter was found dead last fall after a house sitter discovered his body in the bathroom.
    — Anna Lazarus Caplan, Peoplemag, 19 Apr. 2023
  • Possibilities range from freelance work to part-time jobs as a tutor, a delivery driver, a house sitter, a dog walker or something else.
    — Russ Wiles, The Arizona Republic, 3 Nov. 2024
  • Emily O’Brien, 26, uses the Orange Line to get to her side jobs as a cat sitter and house sitter.
    — Taylor Dolven, BostonGlobe.com, 3 Aug. 2022
  • In another scene, Natasha officially meets Chloe, posing as a neighbor’s house sitter.
    — Jp Mangalindan, Peoplemag, 20 Oct. 2023
  • Authorities said a house sitter found a man in the bathtub in the home and resuscitation efforts were unsuccessful.
    — Charles Trepany, USA TODAY, 19 Apr. 2023
  • Authorities later said a house sitter found a man in the bathtub in the home and resuscitation efforts were unsuccessful.
    — Christopher Weber, Alicia Rancilio, Anchorage Daily News, 6 Nov. 2022
  • Other Houston-area homeowners have also returned in the wake of the hurricane to find uninvited house sitters, experts said.
    — Marilia Brocchetto, CNN, 2 Sep. 2017
  • Ultimately, your dog might be happier at home with a house sitter or a dog walker stopping by multiple times during the day than going to a kennel, Jandrey said.
    — Linda Carroll, NBC News, 22 Nov. 2023
  • Justine describes the relationship with the house sitter as a casual dating situation.
    — Veronica Fulton, NBC News, 3 Nov. 2024
  • Halle Bailey is winsome and sprightly as Anna, a once-aspiring chef now reduced to working as a house sitter for wealthy clients in New York.
    — Bilge Ebiri, Vulture, 10 Apr. 2026
  • Being a professional house sitter, and sharing what that entails online, has inspired countless other Black women to follow in her footsteps.
    — Essence, 11 Feb. 2022
  • The two had dreamed of eating their way through Italy; now that dream has been dashed, and Anna, who dropped out of cooking school to care for her ailing mom, now makes a meager living working as a house sitter.
    — Stephanie Zacharek, Time, 10 Apr. 2026
  • Also in exchange for accommodations, travelers can work at hostels and as house sitters, helpers on organic farms or couriers (who get not only room and board, but transportation).
    — Jon Marcus, BostonGlobe.com, 25 May 2023
  • Brittany takes a job as a house sitter and dog-walker, and soon learns there’s a third-shift sitter (Utkarsh Ambudkar) of minimal ambition but detectable gallantry.
    — Michael Phillips, chicagotribune.com, 26 Aug. 2019
  • According to Justine, after her mother disappeared, the house sitter also began getting rid of some of Nancy’s belongings.
    — Veronica Fulton, NBC News, 3 Nov. 2024

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