How to Use attendant in a Sentence

attendant

1 of 2 noun
  • She let the parking attendant park her car.
  • The attendant then turned away from the man to walk down the aisle toward the front of the plane.
    Michael Murney, Chron, 22 Sep. 2022
  • Trains slid by on the tracks, and an attendant droned on an overhead speaker.
    Kamila Hrabchuk, Washington Post, 1 Jan. 2024
  • The fans, the front office, the players, the [clubhouse attendants], people who park our cars.
    Peter Abraham, BostonGlobe.com, 25 Aug. 2023
  • The attendant set my luggage down in my room, smiling at me.
    Jalyn Robinson, Travel + Leisure, 21 July 2023
  • Amid the tangle of concrete and steel, there is a welcome tent with a young attendant.
    Patrik Jonsson, The Christian Science Monitor, 10 Mar. 2023
  • One attendant moved a heat lamp beside her to try to stop her shaking.
    Dell Cameron, WIRED, 4 Oct. 2023
  • The parking lot attendant was not charged with any crime, but Young was charged with felony murder.
    Carol Robinson | Crobinson@al.com, al, 1 Jan. 2023
  • The attendants go through culinary training and serve meals.
    Clara McMichael, ABC News, 29 Nov. 2023
  • The father is a home health attendant, the outlet reports.
    Kc Baker, Peoplemag, 14 Mar. 2024
  • According to the lawsuit, the flight crew never seized the male attendant's cellphone for the duration of the flight.
    Adam Sabes, Fox News, 5 Dec. 2023
  • The complaint says agents routinely leave keys in their bureau cars in the garage so that attendants can move them around.
    Paul Duggan, Washington Post, 7 Feb. 2024
  • The woman managed to escape and speak to a front desk attendant who called 911, officials said.
    Travis Andersen, BostonGlobe.com, 26 Aug. 2022
  • The rest of the parking will be met by an attendant at the entrance of the country club, the cars will be directed to a spot and the guests will be shuttled on limousine-style golf carts.
    Ashley Savage, Arkansas Online, 24 Dec. 2022
  • The 200th episode of The Blacklist begins with one of the worst things that can happen in a restaurant restroom: an overzealous bathroom attendant.
    Tanya Melendez, EW.com, 20 Mar. 2023
  • Our suite attendant fawns over her gold bangles and earrings.
    Janice Wald Henderson, Travel + Leisure, 23 Feb. 2023
  • During a graphic nightmare of his time in World War I, he's awakened by an attendant.
    Matt Cabral, EW.com, 19 Dec. 2022
  • The figures for this year, which will not be published until 2024, are likely to show far higher loss rates and attendant costs.
    WIRED, 9 Sep. 2023
  • On a cruise to Europe, a massage attendant extolled the virtues of body brushes, massage oils, and poultices.
    Scott Laird, Condé Nast Traveler, 16 Aug. 2023
  • Her narrative also laid bare the toll that isolation can take on the attendants who keep ships safe.
    The New Yorker, 20 Nov. 2023
  • In 1948, François-Xavier rented a studio in the neighborhood while working as an attendant at the Louvre.
    Isiah Magsino, Town & Country, 7 Dec. 2022
  • The woman then rang a bell to alert an attendant that her baby had entered the institution.
    Maria Laurino, The New Republic, 25 Aug. 2022
  • You're invited to handpick fruit by the gallon, but there's no attendant.
    Leigh Ann Henion, Southern Living, 14 Aug. 2023
  • In the video, the passenger gets into the face of the attendant before throwing multiple punches.
    Gabriella Ybarra, San Antonio Express-News, 3 May 2023
  • The attendant secured the handle and notified the other crew members.
    Minyvonne Burke, NBC News, 7 Mar. 2023
  • It is served by a uniformed attendant out of an airplane-style beverage cart.
    Lilit Marcus, CNN, 30 Mar. 2023
  • When flyers piled up near the rear bathrooms, attendants simply offered them the galley and went about their business elsewhere on the plane.
    Jeremy Lott, Washington Examiner, 4 Jan. 2024
  • The readout on the digital thermometer/clock affixed to the lift attendant station hit minus-3 at one point.
    Matt Pepin, BostonGlobe.com, 4 Feb. 2023
  • The current minimum wage in California, regardless of industry, is $16 an hour, meaning many cashiers, line and prep cooks, counter attendants and baristas will see as much as a 25% raise overnight.
    Andrea Chang, Los Angeles Times, 27 Mar. 2024
  • Whereas Abramović was ready to embrace the life of a world-famous art star—with its requisite duties and attendant inconveniences—Ulay longed to live a more itinerant and anarchist existence.
    Michael I. Norton, TIME, 11 Apr. 2024
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attendant

2 of 2 adjective
  • The town is trying to deal with the population boom and the attendant increase in traffic.
  • The show ran late, of course, with the attendant Civic Center over-time costs.
    Bart Bull, SPIN, 10 Feb. 2023
  • The Lodge, the largest studio on the grounds, as well as an attendant gourmet kitchen and upstairs lounge.
    Melinda Newman, Billboard, 10 Oct. 2022
  • The attendant shot both teens, killing Guest and wounding Young.
    Carol Robinson | Crobinson@al.com, al, 21 Feb. 2022
  • So when an attendant phones in sick or is left stranded in a stormy region, there’s no one left to staff the plane in their stead.
    Andrew Brinker, BostonGlobe.com, 23 June 2022
  • Some of the ghost quitters are unhappy and would love for nothing more than to leave, but are afraid of the attendant risks.
    Jack Kelly, Forbes, 4 Aug. 2022
  • And yet, even the most outlandish of these bags has trouble being heard over the din of its attendant outfit.
    Nick Haramis, New York Times, 8 Nov. 2021
  • Pon is forced to sell the car and attendant parts in order to pay his hotel bill and travel back to Europe.
    Alexander Stoklosa, Car and Driver, 31 Aug. 2023
  • Even sleeping under the stars, without all the attendant trekking, might help.
    Arthur C. Brooks, The Atlantic, 11 Aug. 2022
  • Haushofer takes her time describing these day-to-day efforts and the attendant, hard-fought progress.
    Erin Douglass, The Christian Science Monitor, 27 July 2022
  • Much post-binge myth is made around the cheeseburger-with-the-works and its attendant bucket of home fries as the silver bullet.
    Guy Martin, Forbes, 27 Nov. 2023
  • That should be a big enough number to secure first place at the box office, as well as all the attendant bragging rights that come with that perch.
    Brent Lang, Variety, 17 June 2022
  • As a result of her lawsuit, the judge ordered the state to use Medicaid to cover her attendant care for 70 hours a week.
    Johnny Magdaleno, The Indianapolis Star, 3 Nov. 2022
  • The pandemic and the public’s attendant reliance on video calls has raised a question — where does Zoom go from here?
    Aidin Vaziri, Andy Reinhardt, Erin Allday, San Francisco Chronicle, 4 Feb. 2022
  • It’s connected to confidence, with its attendant rush of dopamine, and to joy.
    Louisa Thomas, The New Yorker, 11 Feb. 2024
  • The industry was ravaged by the pandemic and attendant decline in travel over the past year and a half.
    Diego Mendoza-Moyers, San Antonio Express-News, 22 Oct. 2021
  • But for all his athletic gifts, Jackson hasn’t been able to outrun the attendant risks of a more pass-first approach.
    Jonas Shaffer, baltimoresun.com, 4 Nov. 2021
  • The Washlet+Totos come with bidet seats and conceal attendant water lines and power cables.
    Matthew Kronsberg, WSJ, 21 Jan. 2022
  • The herbs and oils are added in a specific order to copper cauldrons in a clean room with an attendant Ayurvedic doctor present.
    Parizaad Khan Sethi, Allure, 7 Feb. 2022
  • Data is the lifeblood of your business and the attendant stakeholders are going to generate loads more of it.
    Clint Boulton, Forbes, 3 Aug. 2022
  • This year, the Globes will return to television, bringing the attendant red carpet and gussied-up celebrities along with it.
    Leah Prinzivalli, Allure, 7 Jan. 2024
  • As if the movies’ only hope is to latch onto old playthings and their attendant comfy feelings?
    Stephanie Zacharek, Time, 13 July 2023
  • The main benefit: no need for spinning fan blades, and no need to factor in the attendant thickness of a fan housing and mechanism.
    PCMAG, 8 Jan. 2023
  • In short, these are the sorts of numbers that herald late spring skiing and/or its attendant avalanche season rather than party-hearty turn-of-the-year deep winter ski trips.
    Guy Martin, Forbes, 31 Dec. 2022
  • If the comfort of the chili sauce took the form of catharsis—heart-racing heat and its attendant sweat—the comfort of the tomato soup was soporific, more soothing than Campbell’s.
    Hannah Goldfield, The New Yorker, 6 May 2022
  • His legal woes and their attendant distractions have not gone away.
    Richard N. Bond, CNN, 23 Mar. 2022
  • The attendant attention that comes with being a basketball player has been cranked up to 11 this week, and the Aztecs are careful to stay grounded.
    Ryan Finley, San Diego Union-Tribune, 31 Mar. 2023
  • Anyone who has tried to acquire a 911 in the last few years knows the trials attendant to actually getting one.
    Robert Ross, Robb Report, 28 Aug. 2023
  • The consequences of inflation—and the attendant risks—have long been understood.
    Kevin Warsh, WSJ, 12 Dec. 2021
  • Martha Stewart is prepared for anything — including a swim (and the attendant thirst trap) at a moment's notice.
    Hedy Phillips, Peoplemag, 26 Feb. 2024

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