[
UK
/sˈɪtɐ/
]
[ US /ˈsɪtɝ/ ]
[ US /ˈsɪtɝ/ ]
NOUN
- an organism (person or animal) that sits
- a person who poses for a painter or sculptor
- a person engaged to care for children when the parents are not home
- a domestic hen ready to brood
How To Use sitter In A Sentence
- The scrutinizing artist and his exposed sitters are all committed to the inert artifact that will outlive them: a photograph.
- He missed an early sitter then equalized with a goal set up by Fowler.
- I promised the babysitter that we'd be home by midnight.
- Hiring Teenagers:For many mothers, the very word baby-sitter means hiring a teenager. Mothering Twins
- Missed two absolute sitters in first half. The Sun
- I had a momentary image - very clear, very politically incorrect, and very likely brought on by Pam's mention of the cartoon books I'd once drawn for a little sick girl - of a large talking skunk in a beret, Monsieur Pepé Le Pew, strutting around my daughter's pension (if that was the word for a bedsitter-type apartment in Paris) with wavy aroma lines rising from his white-striped back. Duma Key
- It was an absolute sitter and so costly. The Sun
- You can find a pet sitter through a number of means.
- For example, the black veil and the farthingale, or guardainfante (the rigid framework of iron hoops to support large, stiff skirts), worn by the sitter were typical of but not exclusive to Spanish fashion.
- Response to the business, both from pet owners and dog sitters, was so good that she was encouraged to start offering franchises in October 2002.