Sentence examples for off the attendant from inspiring English sources

With the station lights turned off, the attendant starts to pump the black-market diesel right from the station's pumps into our tank.

I was headed from San Francisco to New York, and as we were getting ready to take off, the attendant told everyone to make sure their cellphones and electronic devices were off.

But the next thing I knew, the buzzer went off, the attendant bustled in, wrapped me in a large, thick sheet and, pointing to a vinyl-covered examining table, ordered me to take a rest.

(The real reason airlines laid off the attendants was that the practice prevented the women from gaining seniority, and kept wages low).

As we took off, the flight attendant motioned to the white telephone between one of my colleagues and me.

The search for a spell to ward off the evils attendant upon self-reference has fed into the axiomatisation of set theory in two ways, corresponding to the two ways in which self-reference has been (mis -understood.

This sets off the flight attendant who points at him and tells him to "stay out of this".

During the safety briefing given before your flight takes off, the flight attendant demonstrates the proper way to put on your life vest.

Beyond its mid-1950s context (hardly nudging Mad Men's 1960 kick-off) and the attendant smoking, sexism and shapely silhouettes, the analogy isn't so much crude as bizarre.

I stayed on the plane until everyone got off and asked the attendant to help me find my phone.

Every time I nearly drifted off to sleep, the attendant would pop her head in "Ce n'est pas trop chaud?" ("It's not too hot?") — as the water around me bubbled and fizzed, giving me the distinct sensation of what it must be like to be a hard-boiled egg.