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How to use sitter in a sentence

14 example sentences · noun

Sitter means someone who sits, e.g. for a portrait. Example: “It's always such a pain to get a sitter on short notice.”

Examples of sitter by meaning

nounOne employed to watch or tend something; a babysitter, housesitter, petsitter, etc.

  • It's always such a pain to get a sitter on short notice.
  • Those domestic worries came through in pop-culture depictions of the sitter.2024 March 19, Faith Hill, “Don’t Tell America the Babysitter’s Dead”, in The Atlantic

nounA participant in a séance who is not a medium.

  • "The sitters had better just take their own places," said the medium.1925 July – 1926 May, A[rthur] Conan Doyle, “(please specify the chapter number)”, in The Land of Mist (eBook no. 0601351h.html)...

nounA very easy scoring chance.

  • How could he miss that? It was an absolute sitter!

More sentences with sitter

  • A burstlet of brain confusion kept me from grasping what the pet sitter was saying.2008 October 7, Kathryn Lilley, chapter 20, in A Killer Workout: A Fat City Mystery, Obsidian Mystery, →OCLC. From the entry burstlet
  • Farther-feeling as distinct from far-feeling, i.e., from a distance instead of from the sitter.1917, “Some New Light On The Future Life?”, in The Unpopular Review, volume 7, numbers 13-14, page 408. From the entry far-feeling
  • As a psychedelic researcher, she was a “trip sitter” the straight person charting drug trips and documenting the findings.1996 June 7, Kathleen McCloud, “‘Artists choice’ promotes idea of mentoring debuts lesser-known work”, in The Santa Fe New Mexican, page 6. From the entry trip sitter
  • For all her nihilistic angst, Nora assumes her sitter duties like a real Mary Poppins, making sure Johm's little jacket is zipped to the chin.2024, Baron Ryan, A Comedy of Nobodies: A Collection of Stories, Blackstone Publishing, page 90. From the entry Mary Poppins
  • Trip sitters are especially handy for your first few psychedelic experiences, or if you’re planning on taking a moderate to high dose.2019, Michelle Janikian, Your Psilocybin Mushroom Companion, page 83. From the entry trip sitter
  • They showed that across all postures, nonsitting infants more frequently yoked their arms into a bilateral reach pattern than the independent sitters.1998, Mark L. Latash, Mindy F. Levin, Progress in Motor Control, page 61. From the entry nonsitting
  • Celebrity cartes, and photographic portraits more generally, were valued in Victorian culture for their much-lauded ability to render the sitter as he or she really was.2013, C. Boyce, P. Finnerty, A. Millim, Victorian Celebrity Culture and Tennyson's Circle. From the entry carte
  • Now the shelves are also packed with Mexican spices, tostadas, chicharrones, the walls covered in signs in Spanish for Mary Kay cosmetics, baby sitters and Senator Barack Obama.2007 December 13, Monica Davey, “Immigration, and Its Politics, Shake Rural Iowa”, in New York Times. From the entry chicharron
  • Somewhere near Fillmore she found the symbol tacked to the bulletin board of a laundromat, among other scraps of paper offering cheap ironing and baby sitters.1966 March, Thomas Pynchon, The Crying of Lot 49, New York, N.Y.: Bantam Books, published November 1976, →ISBN, page 90. From the entry bulletin board
  • "And the sitters?" "I expect Professor Challenger may wish to bring a friend or two of his own." "They will form a horrible block of vibrations!1925 July – 1926 May, A[rthur] Conan Doyle, “(please specify the chapter number)”, in The Land of Mist (eBook no. 0601351h.html)…. From the entry vibration

Meaning of sitter

  1. noun Someone who sits, e.g. for a portrait.
  2. noun One employed to watch or tend something; a babysitter, housesitter, petsitter, etc.
  3. noun A sitting room.

Full definition of sitter

Questions about sitter in a sentence

How do you use sitter in a sentence?
Sitter is used as a noun. For example: “It's always such a pain to get a sitter on short notice.”
What is a short sentence with sitter?
“How could he miss that? It was an absolute sitter!”
What does sitter mean?
Sitter means someone who sits, e.g. for a portrait.

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