How to Use stewardess in a Sentence

stewardess

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  • The stewardess and I were the only ones in the detached section of the plane's tail.
    — Ellen Hassman, Esquire, 15 Jan. 2009
  • Act One: Bobby, the man, tries to get April, the stewardess, to come back to bed but fails.
    — Jesse Green, New York Times, 12 Mar. 2020
  • A few more words were exchanged, but the stewardess didn't budge.
    — Sarah Schreiber, Good Housekeeping, 6 Jan. 2017
  • Cassie Bowden, a boozy stewardess who wakes up in Bangkok next to a dead man.
    — Chancellor Agard, EW.com, 13 Nov. 2020
  • Camille attempts to turn things around in her role as a full-time stewardess.
    — Olivia McCormack, Washington Post, 9 Jan. 2023
  • Lee Rosbach, prefers a deckhand or stewardess to work through the end of a charter.
    — Alyssa Haak, Marie Claire, 11 Nov. 2019
  • The Japanese Yayoi applies for a job as a stewardess for the new Sabena Tokyo line.
    — Leo Barraclough, Variety, 27 July 2023
  • Zhou said that some air stewardesses were thrown into air and that food was strewn about.
    — Bard Wilkinson, CNN, 15 May 2018
  • In those years, nobody could make a career out of being a stewardess.
    — Jennifer Gonnerman, The New Yorker, 23 May 2022
  • Being a flight attendant -- or a stewardess, as they were called until the 1970s -- was a dream job.
    — Jacopo Prisco, CNN, 5 Aug. 2022
  • My ex-wife, who served as a stewardess on the yacht once in a while, is standing next to the pilot house, or wheelhouse, waving at me.
    — As Told To Patricia R. Olsen, New York Times, 9 Dec. 2016
  • The only stewardess who was on the Pan Am Flight 110 and is still alive refuses to talk about it, Blumensaadt said.
    — Pam McLoughlin, Hartford Courant, 9 Jan. 2023
  • The movie stars Pam Grier as an airline stewardess who gets busted for smuggling drugs across the border.
    — Andy Greene, Rolling Stone, 15 July 2022
  • For young women in the 1960s, taking to the skies and becoming a stewardess was a daring decision.
    — Washington Post, 29 Apr. 2022
  • The different plans all include dressing rooms and a large galley under the care of a steward and stewardess.
    — Popular Mechanics Editors, Popular Mechanics, 3 June 2021
  • Francesca Rubi has joined the crew as new chief stewardess, replacing Kate Chastain.
    — Robyn Merrett, PEOPLE.com, 21 Sep. 2020
  • Shea and stewardess Lexi Wilson have butted heads on more than one occasion this season.
    — Ana Calderone, PEOPLE.com, 22 July 2021
  • There’s a reason the airplane stewardess asks you to put on your own oxygen mask before trying to help anyone else with theirs.
    — Nadine Hack, Forbes, 11 Nov. 2021
  • The, 727 Boeing jet with a crew of seven and three off-duty stewardesses aboard, landed in Havana, where the couple and baby left the plane.
    — sandiegouniontribune.com, 8 Jan. 2018
  • There was no recruiting of fake stewardesses and no romping with them through Europe.
    — Elizabeth Kolbert, The New Yorker, 27 Mar. 2023
  • That's when the stewardess said, 'Is there any medical professionals on the aircraft?
    — Katherine Lam, Fox News, 2 Oct. 2018
  • The stewardesses played a critical national defense role in the war.
    — Sarah Rose, Washington Post, 13 May 2020
  • His best seller, in 1967, was his flighty (and fictional) tell-all about stewardesses, as flight attendants were then called.
    — Sam Roberts, New York Times, 26 Oct. 2017
  • In 1972, Sandie Hendrix, a stewardess at United, was fired after weighing in at a hundred and twenty-seven pounds.
    — Jennifer Gonnerman, The New Yorker, 23 May 2022
  • Barragan has worked as both a stewardess and a deckhand over the course of the last two years and has continued her yachtie life after filming season three of Sailing Yacht.
    — Mike Chaar, Men's Health, 23 Feb. 2022
  • Pilots walking with pride, stewardesses, before they were called flight attendants, dressed to the nines and smiling.
    — Jon Caldara, The Denver Post, 15 Apr. 2017
  • When the airlines was still young in 1957, American opened a stewardess college to train its flight attendants, and flight attendants from all over the country would come and stay and train there.
    — Carla Jimenez, star-telegram, 4 June 2019
  • So, yes, Playboy had an airline and apparently Lily's mother was a stewardess on it.
    — Charles Manning, Cosmopolitan, 2 Nov. 2015
  • Earlier in the episode, Jen recounted an incident where a guest — the same one who later appeared to grope Jen — allegedly took her shirt off in front of the stewardess.
    — Lilian Min, Cosmopolitan, 1 Nov. 2017
  • During the 41-minute flight, stewardesses serve champagne topped with raspberries to the small group of passengers, followed by a light dinner and, the coup de grace, cookies with Cher’s name on them.
    — Rob Tannenbaum, Billboard, 18 May 2017

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