[
US
/ˈbeɪbiˌsɪtɝ/
]
NOUN
- a person engaged to care for children when the parents are not home
How To Use baby-sitter In A Sentence
- Hiring Teenagers:For many mothers, the very word baby-sitter means hiring a teenager. Mothering Twins
- One February night, when I had Brian with me and had left Melanie with your baby-sitter, Liza played with matches. Dark Secrets 2: No Time to Die the Deep End of Fear
- “Liza could brag about her experience with fire, too—how she and her sister had escaped with their baby-sitter through a third-floor window, but a playmate had hidden in a closet and died.” Dark Secrets 2: No Time to Die the Deep End of Fear
- The hotel manager will arrange for a baby-sitter.
- Growing up, Ms. Flint's longtime baby-sitter had a son with cerebral palsy. A Novel Benefit Gala
- No one can end for me that night I watched you being helped down the ladder, watched you and Liza and the baby-sitter. Dark Secrets 2: No Time to Die the Deep End of Fear
- She isn't interested in tattling to the wife, whom she doesn't know, or using a baby-sitter spy-cam to catch them.
- Melinda, her reliable and religious baby-sitter, of the mousy brown hair and conservative clothing, now of the flower-like lily limbs and void of clothing of any kind, writhing religiously on their beige living-room couch like an octopus, being devoured by her shirtless husband, their faces lifting and meeting, mouths plastering and coming apart, gasps and moans inaudible above the high-powered shouting of the rock stars on the stereo. For the Sake of the Boy
- Too many experts tell us that good mothers do not abandon their children to baby-sitters.
- For example, show a ballet dancer, a deaf child signing with someone else, a child who uses a wheelchair, a foodcare worker, politician, baby-sitter.