How to Use stewardess in a Sentence

stewardess

noun
  • Camille attempts to turn things around in her role as a full-time stewardess.
    — Olivia McCormack, Washington Post, 9 Jan. 2023
  • Zhou said that some air stewardesses were thrown into air and that food was strewn about.
    — Bard Wilkinson, CNN, 15 May 2018
  • In those years, nobody could make a career out of being a stewardess.
    — Jennifer Gonnerman, The New Yorker, 23 May 2022
  • Her mother worked on board as a stewardess, preparing meals for the crew.
    — Michael Waters, New Yorker, 3 Jan. 2026
  • Cassie Bowden, a boozy stewardess who wakes up in Bangkok next to a dead man.
    — Chancellor Agard, EW.com, 13 Nov. 2020
  • Yasmin asks her father on the boat, after finding him mid-coitus with the stewardess.
    — Naomi Fry, The New Yorker, 30 Sep. 2024
  • Lee Rosbach, prefers a deckhand or stewardess to work through the end of a charter.
    — Alyssa Haak, Marie Claire, 11 Nov. 2019
  • Hartman also appeared in Dunkirk as a stewardess.
    — Wesley Stenzel, Entertainment Weekly, 11 Apr. 2026
  • My ex-wife, who served as a stewardess on the yacht once in a while, is standing next to the pilot house, or wheelhouse, waving at me.
    — As Told To Patricia R. Olsen, New York Times, 9 Dec. 2016
  • Fifty-five passengers, one captain, one copilot and one stewardess were onboard.
    — Ann Zaniewski, Detroit Free Press, 24 May 2018
  • There’s a reason the airplane stewardess asks you to put on your own oxygen mask before trying to help anyone else with theirs.
    — Nadine Hack, Forbes, 11 Nov. 2021
  • There was no recruiting of fake stewardesses and no romping with them through Europe.
    — Elizabeth Kolbert, The New Yorker, 27 Mar. 2023
  • Shea and stewardess Lexi Wilson have butted heads on more than one occasion this season.
    — Ana Calderone, PEOPLE.com, 22 July 2021
  • The different plans all include dressing rooms and a large galley under the care of a steward and stewardess.
    — Popular Mechanics Editors, Popular Mechanics, 3 June 2021
  • The stewardesses played a critical national defense role in the war.
    — Sarah Rose, Washington Post, 13 May 2020
  • The movie stars Pam Grier as an airline stewardess who gets busted for smuggling drugs across the border.
    — Andy Greene, Rolling Stone, 15 July 2022
  • Being a flight attendant -- or a stewardess, as they were called until the 1970s -- was a dream job.
    — Jacopo Prisco, CNN, 5 Aug. 2022
  • Pilots walking with pride, stewardesses, before they were called flight attendants, dressed to the nines and smiling.
    — Jon Caldara, The Denver Post, 15 Apr. 2017
  • Francesca Rubi has joined the crew as new chief stewardess, replacing Kate Chastain.
    — Robyn Merrett, PEOPLE.com, 21 Sep. 2020
  • The film follows two stewardesses racing to save a high-speed train when a massive storm threatens to cause the greatest train wreck in herstory.
    — Lily Brown, PEOPLE, 11 June 2026
  • That's when the stewardess said, 'Is there any medical professionals on the aircraft?
    — Katherine Lam, Fox News, 2 Oct. 2018
  • The Japanese Yayoi applies for a job as a stewardess for the new Sabena Tokyo line.
    — Leo Barraclough, Variety, 27 July 2023
  • So, yes, Playboy had an airline and apparently Lily's mother was a stewardess on it.
    — Charles Manning, Cosmopolitan, 2 Nov. 2015
  • Soon, a stewardess appears carrying a tray holding glasses of champagne, water, and orange juice.
    — Lizz Schumer, PEOPLE, 9 Sep. 2025
  • Sometimes, after giving children pin-on airline wings, the stewardesses—as they were called at the time—would recruit them to help pass out nuts or matches.
    — Ian Bogost, The Atlantic, 12 June 2026
  • Being a stewardess always had a certain glamour for Joan Prince Crandall.
    — Alexandra Skores, CNN Money, 30 May 2026
  • Little is known about stewardess Violet Jessop, who tells of the friendships and loves of the below-decks serving crew.
    — Kay Johnson, Twin Cities, 15 Apr. 2024
  • Soon, another woman, styled like a stewardess except for the lack of a skirt, slacks or underwear, delivered her own ferocious speech.
    — New York Times, 11 Jan. 2018
  • Dore's pregnancy news also came just weeks after her costar and fellow stewardess Dani Soares welcomed her first child, a baby girl.
    — Georgia Slater, PEOPLE.com, 31 Aug. 2021
  • Dore's pregnancy news also comes just weeks after her costar and fellow stewardess Dani Soares welcomed her first child, a baby girl.
    — Jodi Guglielmi, PEOPLE.com, 21 June 2021

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