How to use hostess in a sentence

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• The guests are starting to arrive, but the hostess is having kittens because nothing is ready yet.From the entry have kittens
• The party's off because the hostess is sick.From the entry off
• The hostess explained that it was a young woman named Mallory’s “RIP to my 20s” birthday dinner.2025 May 5, Brock Colyar, “It Must Be Nice to Be a West Village Girl”, in New York, archived from the original on 19 May 2025. From the entry fascinator
• She named me Ben in his honor," I answer as we approach the hostess.2021, Sadie Perez, “Alpha Ben”, in The Princess’s Mate, Singapore New Reading Technology Pte Ltd, ASIN B09KN7GP4V. From the entry daddie's girl
• As all hostesses should, Cassie and Kim were putting serious thought into the party planning.2008, Rosy Thornton, Crossed Wires, Headline Publishing Group, published 2010, →ISBN. From the entry restaurateuse
• Pearl, holding down the hostess station, explained: “Amy's helping in the kitchen—short-handed back there.2003, Max Allan Collins, Cold Burn, →ISBN, page 135. From the entry short-handed
• In Europe, the organizer was the hostess and her principle was catenary.1997, S.A.M. Adshead, Material Culture in Europe and China, 1400–1800: The Rise of Consumerism, →ISBN. From the entry catenary
• My mother was wearing several hats in the early fifties: hostess, scout, wife, and mother.1993, Susan Loesser, A Most Remarkable Fella: Frank Loesser and the Guys and Dolls in His Life: A Portrait by His Daughter, Hal Leonard…. From the entry hat
• Then all present guzzled escapingly, putting behind them the relationship of their host and hostess.1978, Brian Victor Bell, Paper Tiger: Prose Fictions by Five Writers, page 117. From the entry escapingly
• Among these cultured hostesses, a leading figure in the belle époque was the Comtesse de Greffulhe.1973, Raymond Rudorff, The Belle Époque: Paris in the Nineties, Saturday Review Press, page 240. From the entry belle époque
• I remember one of the hostesses whose Christmas parties I attended comparing me to a juvenile bloodhound.1960, P. G. Wodehouse, Jeeves in the Offing, chapter X. From the entry encomium
• This causes embarrassment for both, or all, people concerned, and reflects discreditably on the hostess.1921, Lillian Eichler, Book of Etiquette. From the entry discreditably
• Even Sunday was not barren for Zuleika: modish hostesses gave her postprandially to their guests.1911, Max Beerbohm, chapter II, in Zuleika Dobson. From the entry postprandially
• We got another message from our hostess.2023 August 31, William Meny & Paul Simms, “A Weekend at Morrigan Manor” (8:56 from the start), in What We Do in the Shadows, season 5…. From the entry moonrise
• It was flavoured, for the full medieval effect, with galangal, which her hostess described as “kind of like frankincense”.2023 July 15, Rachel Cooke, “No, Nigella – dinner parties are great. Deliveroo just doesn’t cut it”, in The Observer, →ISSN. From the entry galangal
• Our hostess' memorabilia included several of the little dancecards that girls of that time used at parties to dance with boys.2016, Rosy Hugener, with Carl Hugener, “Cenotes”, in Xtabentum: A Novel of Yucatan, Shared Pen edition, [Lincolnshire, Ill.]: Rosa Hugener…. From the entry dance card
• Hostesses' sartorial practice manifests some of the attributes generally associated with the antifashion style of punk, hippie, and other subcultures.2009, Tiantian Zheng, Red lights: the lives of sex workers in postsocialist China. From the entry antifashion
• Identified with her role as Tupperware party hostess, Ann doesn't seem happily at home in the social world.2008, Don Herzog, Cunning, page 154. From the entry Tupperware party
• Indeed there are mansions along Beechwood Avenue, including the former home of Pearl Mesta, "the hostess with the mostest."2006, Nicholas Sarno, God Bless the Squirrel Cage. From the entry mostest
• "I'm the hostess, it would be unsociable for me to leave," I said, flashing him my most demurring smile.2006, Scarlett O'Hara Can Go to Hell, page 173. From the entry demurring
• Robert cleared his throat. ‘Um, one of the airline hostesses took a shine to Jack and made him some fairy bread.2005, Kris Webb, Kathy Wilson, Inheriting Jack, page 16. From the entry fairy bread
• My hostess and I eat quiche, the girls spaghetti.1999, Sharon Bryan, “Lunch with Girl Scouts”, in Real things: an anthology of popular culture in American poetry, Indiana University…. From the entry pasghetti
• Everyone drank gimlets and the hostess hired an oyster shucker to come up from Baltimore with crates and crates of oysters.1988, Edmund White, chapter 9, in The Beautiful Room is Empty, New York: Vintage International, published 1994. From the entry shucker
• Even before a waitress came up, two hostesses approached and looked daggers at Suzy and Teresa, both of whom glared back.1986, Stephen Coonts, chapter 9, in Flight of the Intruder, Annapolis, Md.: Naval Institute Press, →ISBN, page 116. From the entry look daggers
• Acteon found the air hostess trying to pull on her damasse dress and realign cleavage in the gentleboys' bog.1980, Ian Kennedy Martin, The Last Crime, page 9. From the entry gentleboy
• Taffy's cynophobia, expressed in spitting, growling, melancholy miauling, served to ease the awkwardness of greeting between unprepared hostess and uninvited guest.1961, Xavier Herbert, Soldiers' Women, Netley, SA: Fontana Books, published 1978, page 337. From the entry cynophobia
• Henry Walters was a dinner hostess this evening at Sherwood and Miss Sylvania Hillhouse gave a dinner at Villiano.1927 September 29, “Summer Colonists Leaving Newport […]”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC. From the entry Sylvania
• Some careless hostesses neglect to complete introductions.1921, Lillian Eichler, Book of Etiquette. From the entry discreditably
• You were my hostess, and I ignored you.1911 October 26, Max Beerbohm, Zuleika Dobson, or, An Oxford Love Story, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: John Lane Company…. From the entry kindliest
• To put things in perspective, these “siam tius” combine the casual drinking vibes of a bar with the singers and hostesses of a KTV pub.2017 May 14, Samantha Francis, “Curious Thoughts From My First Visit To A Thai Disco Aka “Siam Tiu” [Uncovering a bustling secret world…. From the entry siam diu
• There is a fine line between being the perfect, considerate hostess and being mumsy – warning signs are making marmalade, bottling fruit, even baking cakes.2009, Penny Isaacs, Sarah Lockett, The Dish, Troubador Publishing, page xix. From the entry mumsy
• “Has the art of hostessing gone so far down the tubes that no one knows how to throw a party anymore without all these books?”2007 March 11, Abby Ellin, “Books Strew the Path to the Altar”, in New York Times. From the entry hostessing
• We buy these plates and cups from the Park Slope co-op, said one popular Brooklyn hostess ruefully, that are eco-correct and dishwashable.2007 November 4, Alexandra Jacobs, “The Green Party”, in New York Times. From the entry dishwashable
• The hostess introduced herself as Joelle.2006, Jessica Conant-Park, Susan Conant, Steamed, Berkley Prime Crime, →ISBN. From the entry huggability
• Even at the end of the century, a country hostess might inquire, on serving coffee, if the guest preferred "long or short sweetening."1999, Rhoda C. Ellison, Bibb County, Alabama: The First Hundred Years, page 51. From the entry short sweetening
• Informed our hostess a thousand times we had to leave early, and do you think she'd get a wriggle on with the tea ?1928-29, Jack Lindsay and Percy Reginald Stephensen, The London Aphrodite: a miscellany of poems, stories, and essays by various hands…. From the entry get a wriggle on

Meaning of hostess

1. noun A female host.
2. noun A female innkeeper.
3. noun Stewardess: a woman steward on an airplane.

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Questions about hostess in a sentence

How do you use hostess in a sentence?

Hostess is used as a noun and verb. For example: “The host and hostess greeted their guests at the door.”

What is a short sentence with hostess?

“The hostess introduced herself as Joelle.”

What does hostess mean?

Hostess means a female host.