baby-sitter

At the first public telephone booth, I stopped and called our baby-sitter.

Chocolate for a Lover’s Heart Kay Allenbaugh 1999

Hiring Teenagers:For many mothers, the very word baby-sitter means hiring a teenager.

Mothering Twins LINDA ALBI 1993

Hiring Teenagers:For many mothers, the very word baby-sitter means hiring a teenager.

Mothering Twins LINDA ALBI 1993

Melinda, her reliable and religious baby-sitter, of the mousy brown hair and conservative clothing, now of the flower-like lily limbs and void of clothing of any kind, writhing religiously on their beige living-room couch like an octopus, being devoured by her shirtless husband, their faces lifting and meeting, mouths plastering and coming apart, gasps and moans inaudible above the high-powered shouting of the rock stars on the stereo.

For the Sake of the Boy Ramola D 2011

No one can end for me that night I watched you being helped down the ladder, watched you and Liza and the baby-sitter.

Dark Secrets 2: No Time to Die the Deep End of Fear Elizabeth Chandler 2011

Growing up, Ms. Flint's longtime baby-sitter had a son with cerebral palsy.

A Novel Benefit Gala Lizzie Simon 2011

While the part of my brain normally responsible for this awareness has taken a leave of absence, I have to recruit another part of my brain to be my own baby-sitter, to monitor my every move and to chime in whenever I need prompting.

Left Neglected Lisa Genova 2011

Or go home and be with the baby-sitter after school.

For the Sake of the Boy Ramola D 2011

One February night, when I had Brian with me and had left Melanie with your baby-sitter, Liza played with matches.

Dark Secrets 2: No Time to Die the Deep End of Fear Elizabeth Chandler 2011

“Liza could brag about her experience with fire, too—how she and her sister had escaped with their baby-sitter through a third-floor window, but a playmate had hidden in a closet and died.”

Dark Secrets 2: No Time to Die the Deep End of Fear Elizabeth Chandler 2011