How to Use server in a Sentence
server
noun- She asked our server for another glass of wine.
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Plex has two parts: the Plex server and the Plex client.
—Jim Rossman, Dallas News, 23 Apr. 2023
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The man gave his server a credit card to pay the bill, but the card was denied.
—cleveland, 13 Oct. 2022
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When the side that serves has a score in an even number, the server for that team plays from the right side of the court.
—Lisa Mulcahy, Good Housekeeping, 9 Nov. 2022
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To pay the bills, Schier works as a server in a restaurant.
—Josh Rottenberg, Los Angeles Times, 9 Aug. 2023
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Also, servers who never tell me their name, the soup of the day, the fish of the day, etc. are not adding value.
—Ticked Off, Orlando Sentinel, 8 Jan. 2024
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At that speed, the ball takes just 0.64 second to leave the server and hit the opposite far end of the court.
—Mark Fischetti, Scientific American, 1 Oct. 2024
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Our server told us the room was locked with no other way in or out.
—Julie Jordan, People.com, 17 Oct. 2024
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Antonio worked in the kitchen and Leonela was a server.
—The Indianapolis Star, 9 Aug. 2022
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Bartenders chat with guests while servers bustle about with trays of food and drinks.
—The Arizona Republic, 26 Feb. 2024
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Kudos to the server who presents the menu as if his fingers were a frame and the list were worthy of one.
—Washington Post, 24 Aug. 2021
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Cloudflare has servers in hundreds of cities and more than 100 countries around the world.
—Andrew Couts, WIRED, 25 Jan. 2025
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Seinfeld gets testy when a server tries to push the toast on him.
—Madison Roberts, Peoplemag, 25 Dec. 2022
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Schwartz and Sandoval were the first of the Vanderpump Rules servers and bartenders to break out on their own.
—Sam Burros, Peoplemag, 7 Aug. 2023
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Ask your bartender or server if a drink is made with syrup or from a mix.
—Jaclyn London, M.s., R.d., Good Housekeeping, 9 Jan. 2023
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Russia also has not shut down access to the Counter-Strike servers.
—Peter Aitken, Fox News, 4 May 2023
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Of course, this trend hasn’t been good for restaurant servers who in some cases have seen their pay drop.
—Laurie Ochoa, Los Angeles Times, 17 Feb. 2024
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What to expect: The manager will then take it up with the server.
—Morgan Hines, USA TODAY, 19 Oct. 2022
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Your device and those of your colleagues are sending video to Zoom’s servers.
—Barath Raghavan, IEEE Spectrum, 5 Nov. 2023
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The next server in the rotation then serves the ball and play continues.
—Emily Deletter, The Enquirer, 27 Oct. 2022
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Filled with white wine — usually pinot grigio, Ramos says — the servers lift the pitcher high and aim for the mouth.
—Connie Ogle, Miami Herald, 24 Feb. 2025
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Later that morning, the same server found what appeared to be a live mouse stuck on a trap along the wall of the restaurant.
—Cindy Carcamo, Los Angeles Times, 4 Dec. 2023
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Our server explained the process, noting that each dish was made fresh.
—Amy Drew Thompson, Orlando Sentinel, 27 June 2024
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Cassie was a 21-year-old server who lived with her parents, and Oliver was 18 years old and still in high school.
—Bysydney Lake, Fortune, 3 Sep. 2023
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Your party gets its own lane complete with a server who will bring you food and drinks.
—Michelle Spitzer, USA TODAY, 24 Sep. 2021
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Chats, Groups, and Channels are stored on Telegram's servers, and the company holds the keys to those messages.
—PCMAG, 20 May 2024
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In 2017, a number of Cloudflare servers were knocked offline.
—Lara Williams, The Mercury News, 26 July 2024
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Alex Ede had worked at the Bear Tooth for more than a decade, a manager, lead server, and bartender.
—Alex Demarban, Anchorage Daily News, 24 Sep. 2021
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Lira asks server Miranda Clark if he’s still needed for the night.
—Cindy Carcamo, Los Angeles Times, 19 Mar. 2025
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The server, a capricious machine with a battery of hard drives, occupied a soundproof box in his home studio.
—Julian Lucas, The New Yorker, 14 Mar. 2025
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