Example Sentences

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If she isn’t baby-sitting, she’ll take orders for homemade piñatas and make mosaic gelatin for parties.

From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 5, 2021

Many grandparents actively help out their children by baby-sitting and school or daycare pickups, so pandemic barriers against that have made for “a lose-lose” situation for families, Nicholson says.

From Washington Times • Mar. 21, 2021

A day before the April 2015 assault, Stubblefield contacted the then 31-year-old woman on a baby-sitting website and arranged an interview, prosecutors said.

From Seattle Times • Oct. 22, 2020

A recently fired nurse takes a job baby-sitting on the weekend for a wealthy doctor with a diabetic son.

From Los Angeles Times • May 1, 2020

That snoopy old lady in our new neighborhood put an end to my baby-sitting career.

From "When I Was Puerto Rican" by Esmeralda Santiago