waitress
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verb (used without object)
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He said no more than four words to me the entire meal, but managed to chat up our waitress.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 29, 2026
In a separate posting on X in November a waitress, said to be from New York City, complained that a table of four who spent $3,000 only gave her $200 or 6.7%.
From BBC ● May 27, 2026
A waitress in the room cried out in Spanish, “I don’t want to die here. I don’t want to die in this room.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 26, 2026
One week before his visit, the students emailed him a list of 35 questions that largely circled around Janie Hatley, the Arlington waitress who’d dated Ortiz.
From Slate ● Apr. 6, 2026
Our waitress appears, long denim skirt, thick Icelandic sweater, tiny shells dangling from cartilage piercings.
From "Wintergirls" by Laurie Halse Anderson
"We don't need 10 waitresses to be serving four tables," Gonzalez says.
From BBC ● Jan. 31, 2026
His focus is on ordinary Midwesterners—bus drivers, waitresses, dime-store clerks, schoolteachers.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 2, 2026
Poker girls are officially described as waitresses, and are hired along with other staff like bartenders, chefs and parking valets to work at poker parties in private homes.
From Salon ● Apr. 4, 2025
There remains a strict sense of territory and hierarchy as the waitresses do their work and the chefs do theirs, all with an anxious intensity.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 31, 2024
He called to one of the waitresses: ‘Take over for me will you, please? I’m going out.’
From "The Heart is a Lonely Hunter" by Carson McCullers
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