How to Use sitter in a Sentence

sitter

noun
  • They hired a sitter so they could go out.
  • Speak up and ask a sitter to stand.
    — The Editors, Curbed, 16 Apr. 2026
  • This pet sitter stayed at the couple's home to watch their dog.
    — Liz O'Connell, MSNBC Newsweek, 1 May 2025
  • Someone has to send a sitter home or pick up the kids from day care.
    — Laura Vanderkam, Fortune, 2 Aug. 2020
  • The sitter should be told she’s not being paid to sleep on the job.
    — Abigail Van Buren, oregonlive, 25 Nov. 2019
  • Chai died at age 5 while under the care of a pet sitter.
    — Ryan Brennan march 4, Miami Herald, 4 Mar. 2026
  • By then the sitter, a farmer and politician who lived near the artist, was dead.
    — Peter Saenger, WSJ, 21 May 2021
  • That means her children have to cut back their work hours or shell out for a sitter.
    — Karen Kaplan, Los Angeles Times, 29 Nov. 2022
  • There is a site called Rover that provides pet sitters.
    — Jamie L. Lareau, USA Today, 21 Sep. 2025
  • This is what in soccer is called a sitter — an easy shot, an open net from six yards.
    — Dylan Hernández Columnist, Los Angeles Times, 29 Aug. 2021
  • So line up a dog sitter and read on for how to stream Cruella.
    — John Lonsdale, Rolling Stone, 27 May 2021
  • Your problem is with the owner of the lap, not the sitter on it.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 20 Aug. 2021
  • Sarr then missed a sitter at the back post, smashing a volley wide.
    — SI.com, 28 June 2018
  • The sitter’s job was to stay in the room and monitor her around the clock.
    — Anna Claire Vollers | [email protected], al, 26 Mar. 2020
  • But other than that, find a pet sitter and enjoy your evening out.
    — Tara Massouleh McCay, Southern Living, 5 Dec. 2025
  • The process can take a year, more if the sitter and artist take a long time to complete a work.
    — Washington Post, 15 Nov. 2019
  • Jamie, the dog-sitter, is startled that Pam is back so soon.
    — Allegra Goodman, New Yorker, 4 Jan. 2026
  • One of Takaro’s chief tasks was to recruit and train new tree-sitters.
    — Robert Moor, New Yorker, 2 Mar. 2026
  • The other option is to leave the kids at home with a trusted sitter.
    — R. Eric Thomas, Denver Post, 6 Apr. 2026
  • Tawnya and her husband then raced out of their driveway to pick up their twins at a sitter’s home.
    — Washington Post, 13 Jan. 2022
  • Pinks and blues and patches of red stand out against the sitter’s brown skin, his strong upper arms.
    — Hilton Als, New Yorker, 17 July 2025
  • Put the portrait sitter’s name in the search box and click on family trees.
    — John Kelly, Washington Post, 18 Apr. 2023
  • The portraits play out as performances by the artist and the sitters.
    — Christopher Knight, Los Angeles Times, 17 Apr. 2025
  • The woman and her husband packed their things and left their trip early to go to the sitter’s house.
    — Madeleine List, Orlando Sentinel, 19 Oct. 2022
  • One of the assailants ordered the dog sitter to unlock her doors and threatened to shoot her.
    — Jasmine Hilton, Washington Post, 10 Dec. 2023
  • Her sitters have ranged from world leaders and royalty to rock stars and athletes.
    — Y-Jean Mun-Delsalle, Forbes.com, 13 Aug. 2025
  • On the first, Thiem missed a forehand sitter with Zverev stranded.
    — Ravi Ubha, CNN, 14 Sep. 2020
  • The internet wasn’t prepared for what happened when a dog was left in the care of a dog-sitter.
    — Lydia Patrick, MSNBC Newsweek, 3 Oct. 2025
  • However, boarding and pet sitter costs aren’t cheap and can rack up quickly.
    — Jessie Quinn, USA Today, 18 Apr. 2026
  • Where did Doctor go after the pet sitter and some neighbors chased him to the mouth of a canyon?
    — San Diego Union-Tribune, 22 July 2022

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