How to Use babysit in a Sentence

babysit

verb

• She babysits their kids on Saturday nights.
• There’s no need to babysit your food on the stove or in the oven.
  — Elizabeth Briskin, Popular Mechanics, 28 Nov. 2022
• That didn't leave 5–6 hours to stay home and babysit my oven.
  — Alyse Whitney, Bon Appetit, 22 Feb. 2018
• Then 14, the woman would babysit for Hobbs and his wife.
  — Taylor Deville, baltimoresun.com, 22 Oct. 2020
• We don't get paid to come out here and try to babysit somebody.
  — Lorenzo Reyes, USA TODAY, 21 Oct. 2021
• We don’t get paid to come out here and try to babysit somebody.
  — Adam Zagoria, Forbes, 22 Oct. 2021
• Tyler shared that Meghan used to babysit the brothers once a month, taking them to the park and duck pond.
  — Caroline Picard, Good Housekeeping, 9 May 2018
• As the night deepened, the line to get in and the number of people to babysit only grew.
  — USA Today, 9 Sep. 2020
• Second, the nurses cannot and will not babysit your child.
  — Washington Post, 5 Aug. 2019
• Pizza takes the longest, as cooks have to stretch the dough, top the pizza, and babysit it in that hot oven.
  — Craig Cavallo, GQ, 9 Aug. 2017
• Helen Ramirez, who lives down the street from the Pagourtzises, used to babysit him and his younger sister.
  — Washington Post, 21 May 2018
• On the day of Savannah’s death, Greninger was supposed to babysit.
  — Suzy Khimm, NBC News, 13 Sep. 2023
• Matt Jaffe would agree to babysit at a moment’s notice.
  — Ron Kampeas, sun-sentinel.com, 8 Sep. 2021
• Vesbit will sometimes babysit while Roost and her son are in town.
  — oregonlive, 2 May 2022
• Bradbury, who would babysit for Ledford as well, said with a laugh.
  — Cameron Teague Robinson, The Courier-Journal, 16 July 2019
• There is the statistic that grandparents who babysit tend to live longer.
  — Michelle Ruiz, Vogue, 10 May 2019
• My question is this: Am I a bad person for not wanting to babysit?
  — Amy Dickinson, The Mercury News, 23 Apr. 2017
• Rachel Bloom can’t babysit anymore, so Reese is bringing her kid to New York.
  — Emma Specter, Vogue, 17 Feb. 2023
• If your host has young children, offer to babysit or take the kids on an outing.
  — Cheryl Stritzel McCarthy, chicagotribune.com, 19 June 2018
• There’s just no way to babysit for several hours and not need to navigate the stairs.
  — Carolyn Hax, Washington Post, 19 Dec. 2023
• Hudgens used to babysit the young Geislers, playing Rock Band at their apartment.
  — Scott D. Pierce, The Salt Lake Tribune, 9 May 2021
• While Erica babysits Steve and Robin, Dustin goes looking for a ride out of there.
  — Kathryn Lindsay, refinery29.com, 5 July 2019
• The Celestials might be the makers of life in the universe, having the Eternals babysit those eggs.
  — Chris Smith, BGR, 8 Nov. 2021
• But for today, she’s been unable to find anyone to babysit.
  — jsonline.com, 16 Nov. 2022
• Ella Fitzgerald would babysit for him in the shop when his parents went out for lunch, Ian Goldrich said.
  — New York Times, 4 Mar. 2021
• Estes picked her up and met her three kids Camden, 11, Jaxon, 9, and Saylor, 8, and her mom, who was over to babysit.
  — Julia Moore, Peoplemag, 12 Mar. 2024
• His host mother’s sister, the one who lives in Fresno, comes over to babysit the kids, along with her hot jock of a husband and their son.
  — Hurmat Kazmi, The Atlantic, 23 Nov. 2021
• My parents would have their friends and other soldiers babysit me.
  — Tricia Despres, PEOPLE.com, 1 Oct. 2021
• After her boyfriend cancels on her, Chris Parker decides to babysit for the night.
  — Stacey Grant, Seventeen, 17 Jan. 2023
• When Carroll’s first daughter, Blake, was born, McCormick was the first person to babysit her.
  — oregonlive, 27 Oct. 2022

Last Updated: 27 Jun 2024