Sentence examples for sort of caretaker from inspiring English sources

Charles Dutoit has been serving as chief conductor in a sort of caretaker role.

In "The Nanny" (1965), at 11 15, Bette Davis stars as a markedly different sort of caretaker, one who may have killed one of her charges.

Previously, an incumbent Prime Minister losing a vote of confidence would either resign immediately, handing power to a successor; or stay in as a sort of caretaker government while a second election was held.

When King Salman named bin Nayef crown prince, some Saudis speculated that the King envisioned him as a sort of caretaker, running the government until M.B.S. could be installed.

Of the Central Park phenomenon, Lester A. Farthing, an official in the Census Bureau's New York regional office, wrote in an e-mail, "we are not certain, but this could be either one of two possibilities": The self-described park residents were homeless, or they were parks department employees living in some sort of "caretaker facility".

Even before the coup, the Supreme Council of the Armed Forces served as a sort of caretaker government between Mubarak's fall and the election of a new parliament.

"These women were sort of caretakers for everybody in their lives," she said.

(Mayme and Agnes Johnson had spoiled Webster so completely that he could not function properly without some sort of loving caretaker).

Renée Michel takes great pains to pretend she's watching daytime television while she's actually reading Kant, and to hide the red mullet fillets she means to have for lunch, marinated in lemon juice, under a cabbage or some turnips, the sort of lowly food semi-retarded caretakers are supposed to eat.

But beware the caretaker who takes this sort of commitment all too literally.

Dear companion of caretaker Dawn.