Sentence examples for be babysitting from inspiring English sources
verb
To watch or tend someone else's child for a period of time, often for money.
- My daughter is babysitting for the Morgans at number ten, who are going out on a date night.
The father was supposed to be babysitting but he was somewhere else, blackout drunk.
There's a terrific scene where Jasmine slurringly pep-talks Ginger's two kids, who she's supposed to be babysitting.
"I wouldn't be going home if I wasn't worried that everybody would be babysitting me when I'm like this," she said, holding up a heavily bandaged hand.
"Now there's not that constant requirement to be babysitting the phone and they can get on with the other duties that the modern secretarial role has come to encompass".
"Click Clack the Rattlebag" opens with a young boy asking his sister's boyfriend, a writer who appears to be babysitting him, to tell him a story: "I don't think it should be too scary, because then when I go up to bed, I will just be thinking about monsters the whole time.
Yes, I still rankle at the comments – "How lovely for you to be able to dabble in your writing when you're not looking after the children"; "I'd've invited you but figured you'd be babysitting again" – I get from new (usually short-lived) and old professional acquaintances who don't disguise their views that I've somehow been subjugated and given it all up for her.
Ms. Jefferds was babysitting.
"I was 14, and I was babysitting.
