babysitter
IPA: bˈeɪbisɪtɝ
noun
- A person who cares for one or more babies or children for a short period of time in place of their legal guardians.
- (derogatory) An individual who has to watch or attend to anything or anyone unnecessarily closely; a coddler or handholder.
baby-sitter
IPA: bˈeɪbisɪtɝ
noun
- Alternative spelling of babysitter [A person who cares for one or more babies or children for a short period of time in place of their legal guardians.]
baby sitter
IPA: bˈeɪbisɪtɝ
noun
- (rare) Alternative spelling of babysitter [A person who cares for one or more babies or children for a short period of time in place of their legal guardians.]
Examples of "babysitter" in Sentences
Examples of "baby-sitter" in Sentences
- Or go home and be with the baby-sitter after school.
- At the first public telephone booth, I stopped and called our baby-sitter.
- Growing up, Ms. Flint's longtime baby-sitter had a son with cerebral palsy.
- Hiring Teenagers:For many mothers, the very word baby-sitter means hiring a teenager.
- One February night, when I had Brian with me and had left Melanie with your baby-sitter, Liza played with matches.
- No one can end for me that night I watched you being helped down the ladder, watched you and Liza and the baby-sitter.
- “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.”
- While the part of my brain normally responsible for this awareness has taken a leave of absence, I have to recruit another part of my brain to be my own baby-sitter, to monitor my every move and to chime in whenever I need prompting.
- 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.