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    sitter example sentences

    sitter


    1. So remember kids, be careful, research, and get your dose, setting, and sitter right


    2. But Maureen shook her head sadly, reminding him of Aoife, waiting for her story and the baby sitter waiting to get home


    3. Mel undoubtedly bitched about my attitude (Leigh granted me permission to deal directly with Customers undercutting her role), and the woman in the cubicle across the hall retaliated because I had complained about her loud, very personal conversations on the company phone with, among others, her gynecologist, her baby sitter, and her husband


    4. could not afford a sitter


    5. sitter, so that for it no cushions are required


    6. INSTEAD OF PAYING FOR A BABY SITTER WHILE YOU ATTEND A CONCERT, TAKE CARE OF A FEW OTHER


    7. Marion became our baby sitter and my doubles tennis partner, and I was attracted to her from the first meeting


    8. They liked you as a baby sitter, and were comfortable with you


    9. Colleen took the baby back to the crib and Shane moved close enough to speak low to Jamie where the sitter would not hear


    10. ” Shane said before both listen to Colleen remind the sitter three times where she would be

    11. The replacement falls into the hands of the boob tube – not the best baby or child sitter, for that matter – or friends


    12. I had a baby I would trust you as its sitter


    13. “Hey, Sitter!” The Thing hollered at Jason


    14. be left with a sitter, even your mom, most of the day


    15. Walsh just looked at him and said; “honey I think baby doesn’t need his sitter all the time, besides look at him, he’s happy


    16. him here at night and where will I find a baby sitter at that hour?”, she asked with


    17. you could ask your fish sitter to take care of:


    18. Michael bade Pal’s sitter a final goodbye before carrying his son out to the car


    19. I rented a bed sitter for her close to mine, a TV set to keep her company and visited her every day


    20. The effect of this personality on the outward form, and the influence it has in modifying the aspect of body and features, are the things that concern the portrait draughtsman: the seizing on and expressing forcefully the individual character of the sitter, as expressed by his outward appearance

    21. The fashionable photographer, knowing this, carefully stipples out of his negative any striking characteristics in the form of his sitter the negative may show


    22. Not that it is necessary for the artist to grasp the mind of his sitter, although that is no disadvantage


    23. Everybody has some characteristic action in the way that should be looked out for and that is usually absent when a sitter first appears before a painter on the studio throne


    24. Another point of view is that of the artist who seeks to give a significant and calm view of the exterior forms of the sitter, an expressive map of the individuality of those forms, leaving you to form your own intellectual judgments


    25. A simple, rather formal, attitude is usually chosen, and the sitter is drawn with searching honesty


    26. honest they are, but honest not to a cold, mechanically accurate record of the sitter's appearance, but honest and accurate to the vital impression of the live sitter made on the mind of the live artist


    27. The drawing of the Lady Audley, here reproduced, bears evidence of some of this subtle variation on what are called the facts, in the left eye of the sitter


    28. Another point of view is that of treating the sitter as part of a symphony of form and colour, and subordinating everything to this artistic consideration


    29. Then there is the official portrait in which the dignity of an office held by the sitter, of which occasion the portrait is a memorial, has to be considered


    30. The more intimate interest in the personal character of the sitter is here subordinated to the interest of his public character and attitude of mind towards his office

    31. And further, the artist does not take whatever comes to hand in the appearance of his sitter, but works to a thought-out arrangement of colour and form, to a design


    32. This he selects from the moving and varied appearance of his sitter, trying one thing after another, until he sees a suggestive arrangement, from the impression of which he makes his design


    33. A sitter varies very much in the impression he gives on different days, and the artist must in the early sittings, when his mind is fresh, select the aspect he means to paint and afterwards work largely to the memory of this


    34. Of the two sitters one held the rudder-lines, and looked at us attentively,—as did all the rowers; the other sitter was wrapped up, much as Provis was, and seemed to shrink, and whisper some instruction to the steerer as he looked at us


    35. Still, in the same moment, I saw the prisoner start up, lean across his captor, and pull the cloak from the neck of the shrinking sitter in the galley


    36. Santos the sitter to protect them, and all she wanted was to be in motion toward them


    37. Then again, she was the only sitter in Brooklyn Heights Regan could actually afford


    38. The evening led not to a hotel room, as he’d secretly hoped, but to paying off the sitter and helping with homework and dealing with Cate’s litany of pre-bed complaints and reading her her story and dropping into sleep almost before their bodies hit the bed


    39. And after the sitter had been paid and the kids put to bed and the teeth brushed and the sleepwear donned, they lay in the dark reliving it


    40. Henri the painter was occupied, for Holman’s Department Store had employed not a flag-pole sitter but a flag-pole skater

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    Synonyms for "sitter"

    brood hen broody broody hen setting hen sitter artist's model baby-sitter babysitter willem de sitter

    "sitter" definitions

    Dutch astronomer who calculated the size of the universe and suggested that it is expanding (1872-1934)


    an organism (person or animal) that sits


    a person engaged to care for children when the parents are not home


    a person who poses for a painter or sculptor


    a domestic hen ready to brood