Examples of waiter in a Sentence
waiters at that elegant restaurant must go through an extended training program before being allowed to serve customers
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The 90-minute feature about the Scottish island group starts in one summer evening in 1994 when a masked man walks calmly into the only Indian restaurant in the remote islands and shoots a waiter dead before disappearing into the night.
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Max Goldbart, Deadline, 6 June 2025
The members of my party have the gall to request several of these demonic items from the livid waiter.
—Caity Weaver, The Atlantic, 5 June 2025
His identification with his identity as a waiter provides a refuge from the overwhelming terror of existential freedom.
—Gideon Lewis-Kraus, New Yorker, 25 May 2025
Why should a waiter who earns $100,000 per year in a high-end restaurant pay less tax than a school teacher or firefighter who makes the same?
—Sun Sentinel Editorial Board, Sun Sentinel, 25 May 2025
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Max Goldbart, Deadline, 6 June 2025
The members of my party have the gall to request several of these demonic items from the livid waiter.
—Caity Weaver, The Atlantic, 5 June 2025
His identification with his identity as a waiter provides a refuge from the overwhelming terror of existential freedom.
—Gideon Lewis-Kraus, New Yorker, 25 May 2025
Why should a waiter who earns $100,000 per year in a high-end restaurant pay less tax than a school teacher or firefighter who makes the same?
—Sun Sentinel Editorial Board, Sun Sentinel, 25 May 2025
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“Waiter.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/waiter. Accessed 15 Jun. 2025.
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waiter
noun
wait·er
ˈwāt-ər 
: one that waits
especially
: a person who waits tables (as in a restaurant)
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