baby-sit
Britishverb
Other Word Forms
- baby-sitting noun
Example Sentences
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But Giamatti sets Hunham on a carefully trodden path toward heroic humanity when he’s forced to baby-sit his most troublesome student, newcomer Dominic Sessa’s Angus Tully, on the depopulated campus over Christmas break.
From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 4, 2024
His antics had some people joking that he should come and baby-sit and do domestic chores for them.
From BBC • Aug. 3, 2022
"I wouldn’t want to baby-sit — I mean, be married to — anyone else, ever."
From Fox News • Nov. 24, 2021
But one couple's decision to go out was another's chance to baby-sit; so it became difficult to earn coupons.
From Slate • Dec. 19, 2017
She did much of the work, and I was required to lug water from the communal tap, run errands and baby-sit my brother and sister.
From "Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography" by Mark Mathabane
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