ATTENDANT in a Sentence

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As I entered, a sallow Malay attendant had hurried up with a pipe for me and a supply of the drug, beckoning me to an empty berth.

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 Meanings and Examples of ATTENDANT
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
attendant
 n.  aide or servant; someone whose job is to help others in a particular situation
Classic Sentence: (210 in 15 pages)
1  She took them, the cat attendant, to the larder, and laid them on a plate in that semi-ecclesiastical apartment.
Between the Acts By Virginia Woolf
Context  Highlight   In Unit 2
2  "From foreign parts, my lord, but from whence I know not" replied his attendant.
Ivanhoe By Walter Scott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XIII
3  He awoke from a broken slumber, under the confused impressions which are naturally attendant on the recovery from a state of insensibility.
Ivanhoe By Walter Scott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXVIII
4  "Thou wilt but injure thyself by the attempt, noble knight," replied his attendant.
Ivanhoe By Walter Scott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXIX
5  De Bracy had no sooner left the apartment than Prince John summoned an attendant.
Ivanhoe By Walter Scott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXIV
6  Fanny would certainly believe him so at least, and must find that her estimation of him was higher than ever when he appeared as the attendant, supporter, cheerer of a suffering brother.
Mansfield Park By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLV
7  The attendant stooped over the bed, to ascertain; and nodded in the affirmative.
Oliver Twist By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXIV
8  'Brittles always was a slow boy, ma'am,' replied the attendant.
Oliver Twist By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXIX
9  As I entered, a sallow Malay attendant had hurried up with a pipe for me and a supply of the drug, beckoning me to an empty berth.
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In VI. THE MAN WITH THE TWISTED LIP
10  Head attendant at the Hotel Cosmopolitan.
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In VII. THE ADVENTURE OF THE BLUE CARBUNCLE
11  I may say that I was his personal friend as well as his medical attendant.
The Hound of the Baskervilles By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 2. The Curse of the Baskervilles
12  Dr. James Mortimer, the friend and medical attendant of the deceased, has given evidence to the same effect.
The Hound of the Baskervilles By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 2. The Curse of the Baskervilles
13  When our friends left I at once followed them in the hopes of marking down their invisible attendant.
The Hound of the Baskervilles By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 4. Sir Henry Baskerville
14  Presently she came back up the road again, her head haughtily in the air, not deigning to take any further notice of her silent attendant.
The Return of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In IV. THE ADVENTURE OF THE SOLITARY CYCLIST
15  The attendant was struck by his manner, and knowing my interest in him, encouraged him to talk.
Dracula By Bram Stoker
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VIII
Example Sentence: (138 in 10 pages)
16  He attended every meeting without fail.
17  Over two hundred people attended the funeral.
18  The meeting will be attended by finance ministers from many countries.
19  The mission was attended upon by many risks.
20  He attended in his official capacity as mayor.
21  He attended Eton, the most exclusive private school in Britain.
22  PC Michael Potter attended the scene.
23  She attended all the lectures in the series.
24  The service was attended by Christians of all denominations.
25  She attended on the wounded soldier day and night.
26  I attended practically every lecture and seminar when I was a student.
27  Emperor Nero attended the bacchanalian orgy.
28  I have forwarded it to the dietetics program I attended at my university as it would be beneficial for the nutrition students to review it.
29  At movie events, stars often show in jeans and tees, but they both attended this screening promptly wearing.proper well-pressed clothes.
30  You may hold or attend press conferences to announce news or show a product range.