How to Use house sitter in a Sentence
house sitter
noun-
The owner was out of town but a house sitter noticed the theft and talked with police.
— Bruce Geiselman, cleveland.com, 16 Dec. 2017 -
Our house sitter told us the house is overrun by vultures.
— Tony Doris, Harper's magazine, 28 Oct. 2019 -
Emily O’Brien, 26, uses the Orange Line to get to her side jobs as a cat sitter and house sitter.
— Taylor Dolven, BostonGlobe.com, 3 Aug. 2022 -
Some of these sites charge house sitters only, some also charge the owner.
— Kathleen Pender, SFChronicle.com, 1 Feb. 2020 -
The site works in a similar way to Airbnb, with both the owner and the house sitter leaving reviews for each other.
— Tamara Hardingham-Gill, CNN, 5 Feb. 2022 -
The owner was out of town and Kanto had escaped from a house sitter, who was trying to locate him.
— Nicole Soto, azcentral, 18 Nov. 2019 -
The man recognized the woman as a house sitter at the neighbor’s home on Whitlock Avenue, police said.
— Jesse Leavenworth, courant.com, 31 Jan. 2022 -
Try house sitting One of the easiest ways to earn some extra money is to offer your services as a house sitter.
— Katie Winterburn, San Diego Union-Tribune, 16 Sep. 2019 -
Barns reminded council that there are residents who do not know their neighbors or have the resources to hire a house sitter.
— Ryan Nickerson, Houston Chronicle, 11 Aug. 2020 -
CBS News reports that Carter's house sitter called police after finding his body.
— Aimée Lutkin, ELLE, 6 Nov. 2022 -
People who have seasonal homes sometimes hire house sitters to stay in their houses during the off-season.
— Amy Dickinson, Detroit Free Press, 13 Oct. 2017 -
TrustedHousesitters is a website that pairs those with pets that are going away for an extended amount of time with a house sitter.
— Elizabeth Gulino, House Beautiful, 27 Mar. 2019 -
Winter is the best time to get started as a house sitter because people are traveling to visit family.
— Jasmine Browley, Essence, 14 Dec. 2021 -
Many people hire seasonal house sitters during the off-season, because of the substantial risks to leaving a house empty.
— Amy Dickinson, Detroit Free Press, 1 June 2020 -
Brittany takes a job as a house sitter and dog-walker, and soon learns there’s a third-shift sitter (Utkarsh Ambudkar) of minimal ambition but detectable gallantry.
— Michael Phillips, chicagotribune.com, 26 Aug. 2019 -
Other Houston-area homeowners have also returned in the wake of the hurricane to find uninvited house sitters, experts said.
— Marilia Brocchetto, CNN, 2 Sep. 2017 -
Authorities later said a house sitter found a man in the bathtub in the home and resuscitation efforts were unsuccessful.
— Christopher Weber, Alicia Rancilio, Anchorage Daily News, 6 Nov. 2022 -
Being a professional house sitter, and sharing what that entails online, has inspired countless other Black women to follow in her footsteps.
— Essence, 11 Feb. 2022
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