How to Use sir in a Sentence

sir

noun

• At the time, the sir stood several feet from the plate.
  — John Shea, San Francisco Chronicle, 18 Sep. 2022
• The 28-year-old sells private jets (sir, the climate!) and likes hangin' with the boys as much as Colleen likes hangin' with the girls.
  — Elizabeth Logan, Glamour, 28 Oct. 2022
• It’s all guys, there’s no females back there at all, sir.
  — Katie Hafner, Scientific American, 18 Nov. 2021
• Yes sir, life is good in the desert, where fans are returning to Chase Field to root for the home team again.
  — Bob Nightengale, USA TODAY, 5 June 2023
• Welcome back to Meet the Press two days before the election, sir.
  — NBC News, 6 Nov. 2022
• On one of these plays, J. R. Smith stepped out of the way, as if to say, go right ahead, sir, enjoy yourself.
  — Harvey Araton, New York Times, 2 June 2017
• God bless you sir for putting so much effort into this race.
  — Paul Steinhauser, Fox News, 18 May 2022
• So what has changed to suddenly put you on the side of questioning the results of this election, sir?
  — NBC News, 3 Jan. 2021
• The Trump administration has tried this a few times, sir.
  — Callum Borchers, Washington Post, 22 May 2017
• My romantic sense of the world is strong, yes sir, but it’s no longer tethered to some external source.
  — Heather Havrilesky, The Cut, 30 Aug. 2017
• That ‘sir or ma’am’ gave me so much, because bluster [in action movie heroes] was the order of the day and this was the opposite.
  — James Hibberd, The Hollywood Reporter, 29 Aug. 2023
• Liam, good sir, this character has such a wonderful depth to him.
  — Nick Romano, EW.com, 22 May 2024
• This is what happens, sir, when a White House starts losing, losing, losing.
  — WSJ, 15 Feb. 2017
• Thank you for coming on and sharing your perspective, sir.
  — NBC News, 27 Nov. 2022
• But these are not ordinary times, and you, sir, are anything but an ordinary man.
  — Oliver Gettell, EW.com, 7 July 2017
• Senator King, as always sir, thank you for coming on and sharing your views.
  — NBC News, 18 June 2017
• Thanks for coming on and sharing your perspective, sir.
  — NBC News, 29 Nov. 2020
• Senator Cruz, congratulations on the book and welcome back to Meet the Press, sir.
  — NBC News, 11 Oct. 2020
• Ron Klain, chief of staff for President Biden, thank you for coming on and sharing your perspective, sir.
  — NBC News, 24 Jan. 2021
• Well, sir, does Netflix have an astronaut drama for you.
  — Kristen Baldwin, EW.com, 28 Aug. 2020
• Finally, sir, does the FDA need to be doing more to get full authorization for those vaccines?
  — ABC News, 8 Aug. 2021
• Foreign Minister Kuleba, welcome to Meet the Press, sir.
  — NBC News, 10 Apr. 2022
• Okay, sir — those two sentiments can't really co-exist in the same statement.
  — Kristen Baldwin, EW.com, 14 Sep. 2022
• If you’ve been known to meticulously adjust the bedroom thermostat, this sleeping bag is for you, good sir.
  — Mike Richard, Men's Health, 18 Nov. 2022
• Well, sir, typically, a vaccine is named after the disease that it is supposed to protect against.
  — Bruce Y. Lee, Forbes, 12 Apr. 2021
• Many thousands are in want of common necessaries; hundreds of thousands are in want of common comforts, sir.
  — Star Tribune, 24 Dec. 2020
• Unclench your perfectly chiseled jaw and lighten up, sir.
  — Maggie Fremont, Vulture, 6 May 2021
• No offense sir, but was wondering what’d the situation be if my response was typed in Kannada!!
  — Ananya Bhattacharya, Quartz, 28 Apr. 2022
• If Johnson senior receives his knighthood and becomes a sir, this won’t technically fit the nepo baby framework.
  — Howard Murphy, Rolling Stone, 20 Apr. 2023
• Who would have predicted, for example, that a Broadway musical that 99 percent of the population hasn’t even been able to see (Hamilton) would cause such a worldwide stir, sir?
  — Brian Raftery, WIRED, 26 Aug. 2016

Last Updated: 1 Dec 2024