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Example sentences for "waiter"

Lexicographically close words:
waistcoats; waisted; waists; wait; waited; waiters; waiteth; waith; waitin; waiting
  1. He tapped on the table with a knife-handle, and on the waiter answering to the call he requested him to fetch the paper-knife he would find in the grass outside.

  2. The waiter brought it back after a short search, and O'Hara carefully examined it.

  3. The tiny chicken which followed it was first shown to her in a tin saucepan; then the waiter took it away and carved it at a side table.

  4. Paris seemed very cold and cheerless, and she did not like the tall, haggard houses, nor the slattern waiter arranging chairs in front of an early café, nor the humble servant clattering down the pavement in wooden shoes.

  5. Towards the end of dinner, the head waiter interrupted their conversation.

  6. Won't you let me tell the head waiter to--to include your bill with ours?

  7. Our best sunset; romance but slightly damaged by an Arab waiter wrapping up his head in a towel with which he had just dried our teacups and no doubt will again.

  8. Kitty Conway assented, and they moved off to one of the side tables, where a waiter speedily placed glasses before them, and opened a bottle of champagne.

  9. In the mean time I was a waiter in the house, dining-room servant, &c.

  10. The waiter had arrived and he gave him a vociferous order.

  11. Kendricks smiled as the waiter brought them sugared cakes with their coffee.

  12. The waiter disappeared and in a moment or two Julien was served.

  13. The Duchess signed her bill, slightly undertipped the waiter and accepted his subdued thanks with a gracious smile.

  14. An attentive waiter was already arranging an ice-pail in a convenient spot.

  15. Kendricks summoned a waiter, a task of no inconsiderable difficulty, for the service was automatic--the dishes were set upon the table and the waiter disappeared for the next lot.

  16. He summoned the waiter and asked him a question quickly in Italian.

  17. The waiter set both portions before me, meaning, without doubt, that I should pass one to my friend.

  18. Presently the waiter entered with the apéritif.

  19. To the accompaniment of music and clinking glasses the dress-suited waiter served me a five- course lunch for two francs.

  20. To the power therein even the stolid waiter paid his homage.

  21. The head waiter told me later that it had.

  22. The head waiter was a little old fellow with a round back, a quizzical eye, and the hair of a first violin.

  23. She could barely choke down her food in the dining-car, and hated a waiter for watching her with a white-toothed smile.

  24. The porter and the grinning waiter would not be forgotten.

  25. Hannah and the too friendly waiter helped her up with an effort at self-control, but Frieda had mislaid her sense of humor.

  26. The waiter went off in the leisurely style that was only consistent with the management of an establishment that dated back to King John; and in a few minutes Beatrice appeared, having laid aside her sealskin coat, and her hat.

  27. They seated themselves on one of the old window-seats, and talked face to face, listlessly watching the old waiter lay a white cloth on a portion of the black oak table.

  28. The old waiter re-entered the room and laid on the table a flat bedroom candlestick with a box of matches.

  29. He sent a waiter ahead to announce him, and leisurely mounted the stairs.

  30. No; the waiter tells me all the lovely things we had for breakfast came from miles away.

  31. But he recovered his presence of mind sufficiently to close the door sharply upon the waiter behind him.

  32. Well," said he when the waiter had cleared away their plates, and left them to their less substantial luxuries.

  33. There was a waiter in the middle of the room who was throwing some fresh sand upon the floor, but who stared immensely when looking up he beheld Sybil.

  34. Sybil repeated that wish, and this time the waiter said nothing.

  35. Now, Ma'am, if you please," said the waiter inquiringly.

  36. He was compensated for every annoyance by the remembrance that the St James's Street waiter was ennobled, and by his determination that his children should rank still higher in the proud peerage of his country.

  37. The waiter did not hear, or was too busy with some one else to hear.

  38. At length all was ready, and a waiter struck the bell.

  39. The waiter gone, Esther saw the Frenchwoman lean across to her companion with an obvious effort of self-control.

  40. He broke off as a knock at the door heralded the entrance of a waiter bearing a tray with two frosty cocktails.

  41. The wayfarer stood in the middle of the road, hurling imprecations in the choicest argot at Roger, while a waiter in a dirty apron and two seedy guests on the sidewalk joined him ardently.

  42. A pause while the returning waiter set before them tea and a cocktail.

  43. The elder woman attacked the waiter almost bodily, and in hard, guttural French commanded him to move the table closer to the dancing floor--an operation causing considerable annoyance to the surrounding guests.

  44. A few minutes passed, a waiter entered, cleared away some cups and left the room again.

  45. When he woke and had finished dressing, the hotel waiter brought him a letter.

  46. Among those present was a former waiter at Dick Stein's.

  47. Vell, I vas waiter dere for two, tree year.

  48. He gave the waiter one, requesting change, and put the other in his waistcoat pocket.

  49. The waiter appeared, and Bologna, after long consideration, hesitatingly ordered a Welsh rare-bit.

  50. Bologna was ultimately prevailed upon not to leave the house, contenting himself with various economical resolutions, which he commenced putting in practice when the waiter appeared to know if they would order supper.

  51. Bologna, as the waiter went out of the room; "what a bill you'll have to pay here!

  52. The brilliant waiter not having the remotest conception of what was wanted, and determined not to confess his ignorance, had resolved to try all the dishes in the most general request until he came to the right one.

  53. The lady at the desk and the waiter examined the coin with a minute care that was not flattering to Contenson; but their suspicions were justified by the astonishment produced on all the regular customers by Contenson's appearance.

  54. She sat in silent attendance while their waiter recited, in heavily accented English, a seemingly unending speech upon the specialities of the house.

  55. From the side, a hovering waiter produced a shallow ashtray of white china and set it near his elbow.

  56. She was as blonde and as fat as the lonely waiter and much redder.

  57. They went to the Harvard Club and sat in a corner of the dining-room where not even a waiter noticed them for the first half hour.

  58. Norton Percival was the name on this gentleman's luggage, and on the card which he gave to the waiter whom he desired to look after his letters.

  59. The waiter starting away with a tray load of dishes stopped to learn.

  60. As the waiter closed the door to execute his order, he delivered himself of the following soliloquy, between the whiffs of his cigar: "Ha-ha!

  61. Wine should be taken after the first course; and it will be found more convenient to let the waiter serve it, than to hand the decanters round, or to allow the guests to fill for themselves.

  62. But the wrinkles of the carpet were no longer there to stop it, and not meeting with the expected resistance, the unfortunate waiter fell full length into the room.

  63. Rub on with a sponge a little white soap and some lukewarm water, and wash the waiter or urn quite clean.

  64. The carver should supply the plates, and the waiter hand them round, instead of putting the question to each guest as to which part he prefers, and then striving to serve him with it, to the prejudice of others present.

  65. We would have several of the boys with aprons on, and when anybody was passing on the street, one of us would call, "Waiter open a bottle of that extra dry.


  66. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "waiter" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    barmaid; bartender; dish; receptacle; servant