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Example sentences for "assistant"

Lexicographically close words:
assise; assises; assist; assistance; assistances; assistants; assiste; assisted; assister; assisting
  1. Her ladyship bad commissioned him to act as the theosophist's assistant and play the part of scout.

  2. The assistant concierge informed me that you were Britton.

  3. Then the assistant concierge is an ass, like yourself," he said.

  4. Foster Bain, then assistant state geologist, now a resident of London, and one of the world's most famous consulting geologists, Barthinius L.

  5. It is assistant editorship on a magazine.

  6. He was assistant instructor in science in the girls' high school, and taught in the lower grades, where the ruler is still used on pupils' knuckles and tongues are stuck out behind the teacher's back in revenge.

  7. That's why it's always locked and only the owner and his assistant may have the key to it.

  8. She again found a ready assistant in Mrs. Jula.

  9. Commissioned in the United States Army, in 1838, as second lieutenant in the Topographic Corps, his initial service was fortunately as principal assistant to I.

  10. Huts were built, canoes made, game obtained, all with great difficulty and hardship, for every burden fell on Pike, without the aid of a doctor or assistant as his second in command.

  11. Clark was an able and faithful assistant to the unfortunate Lewis, who did not live to write the full story of the expedition.

  12. Alfidius carried his victim out into the slaves' quarters in the rear of the house; there he bound his hands and called in the aid of an assistant to help him execute his mistress's stern mandate.

  13. The assistant superintendent was daily yielding more and more to Fred's judgment.

  14. Evidently the assistant superintendent had said a word for him.

  15. Fred Starratt rose in rapid succession to the position of pantryman, head waiter to the attendants, assistant bookkeeper in the office.

  16. Nothing uncommon passed for some time; he went regularly through the ceremonial of assistant chief mourner, and in silence welcomed, by the customary shake of the hand, each of the friends of the deceased as they came in.

  17. Beginning upon the first day of June, 1912, you will be transferred to the post of assistant superintendent on a large drainage contract in northern Iowa.

  18. Howells was assistant editor of the Atlantic at this time; James T.

  19. His assistant lost all desire to be obliging to such a person and even took occasion now and then to stir him up.

  20. An assistant secretary had to be engaged immediately, and it sometimes required from sixteen to twenty hours a day for two skilled and busy men to receive callers and reduce the pile of correspondence.

  21. The children have gone on a lark through the neighboring hills and woods, Susie and Clara horseback and Jean, driving a buggy, with the coachman for comrade and assistant at need.

  22. His talent and industry had already made him a valuable assistant to Mr. Currie, and an able engineer had an almost certain career of prosperity open to him.

  23. Sedis,” Ratisbon, 1883, published by the assistant keeper of the archives P.

  24. He was also for a long time assistant to his father in the bishopric of Nazianzum [Nazianzen].

  25. The pope nominated as his successor his previous assistant Laurentius.

  26. His assistant Dietrich carried on the work of the mission in the district from Freiden down to Esthonia.

  27. She was not too much absorbed, however, to give me a keen questioning glance--but she said nothing, for as assistant teacher in art I had a perfect right to frequent the studio.

  28. My assistant has discovered that Terwilliger has had no dealings with his old associate Nimble Tim since his release from prison.

  29. ADELE, an assistant in the shop of Quenu, the pork-butcher.

  30. After three years at Marseilles he came to Paris, where he secured an appointment as assistant at "The Ladies' Paradise" through the influence of the Campardons, who were old friends of his mother.

  31. Delangre as representative of Plassans, Rastoil received the appointment of assistant public procurator at Faverolles.

  32. About this time Octave Mouret came to be assistant in Vabre's shop, and Berthe, carried away by his attentions, entered upon an unfortunate liaison with him.

  33. Through the influence of his brother Eugene, he got an appointment as assistant surveying clerk at the Hotel de Ville, with a salary of two thousand four hundred francs.

  34. As she was the least qualified and therefore the worst-paid assistant in the laundry, she was kept on after decreasing business caused the others to leave.

  35. Medical aid was sent for, and the assistant of a neighbouring doctor saw the girl, and judged she was suffering from the effects of drink.

  36. The medical man whose assistant had seen her the previous night, gave a certificate that death was due to delirium tremens and syncope, and Matilda Clover was buried at Tooting.

  37. Two of his former pupils had returned from their travels--Sir Edwin Sandys and George Cranmer, men worthy of the names they bore; for the one became his ardent patron, and the other the zealous assistant in his great work.

  38. Roy had been the learned assistant of Tyndale in the first edition of the translation of the New Testament, and it was the public conflagration at London of that whole edition which aroused his indignant spirit.

  39. The assistant justices were three in number.

  40. Here is a work which you can understand, and after mastering its contents I'll guarantee you're ready to hold your own against any engineer's assistant in the middle field.

  41. Being the only Comprehensive and Practical Guide and Assistant to Letter Writing Published.

  42. The assistant being a notary, Clitandre and Lucinde are married.

  43. Schoolmaster and parish clerk of Gandercleuch, who employed his assistant teacher to arrange and edit the tales told by the landlord of the Wallace inn of the same parish.

  44. The terrible shop-assistant was so powerfully built that it took four of them at least to get the better of him.

  45. Hear, O goddess, come a propitious assistant to my feet.

  46. And now again Argive Juno and the powerful assistant Minerva returned to the palace of mighty Jove, after having stayed man-slaying Mars from his deeds of slaughter.

  47. It was only when the door was banged to by the assistant (who kept behind us, at a sign from the superintendent) that he looked up.

  48. While these investigations were proceeding, Doctor Fontaine's senior assistant obtained leave to examine through a microscope the sealing-wax left on the box which had contained the keys.

  49. I had the hint from Holmes that this smooth-faced pawnbroker's assistant was a formidable man--a man who might play a deep game.

  50. Then I rang the bell, and, as I hoped, the assistant answered it.

  51. This assistant of yours who first called your attention to the advertisement--how long had he been with you?

  52. Besides, I knew that my assistant was a good man, and that he would see to anything that turned up.

  53. I don't know that your assistant is not as remarkable as your advertisement.

  54. From the time that I heard of the assistant having come for half wages, it was obvious to me that he had some strong motive for securing the situation.

  55. He bowed me out of the room, and I went home with my assistant hardly knowing what to say or do, I was so pleased at my own good fortune.

  56. The rabbinical academy, which the rabbinical assistant in Berlin, in conjunction with excellent men, desired to call into existence, never saw the light.

  57. He at first answered Serach's questions not personally, but through one of his companions, an assistant and follower, Moses Metz.


  58. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "assistant" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    accessory; accomplice; acolyte; adjutant; adjuvant; agent; aid; aide; ancillary; assistant; associate; attendant; auxiliary; coadjutor; colleague; deputy; employee; factor; help; helper; helping; helpmate; hireling; inferior; instructor; instrumental; junior; lecturer; lieutenant; mercenary; ministerial; ministering; orderly; participant; partner; pensioner; reader; satellite; second; secondary; servant; serving; subordinate; subservient; subsidiary; supporter; tutor; underling; batty; beery; beguiled; bemused; besotted; brainless; cockeyed; crazy; credulous; daft; dazed; dizzy; doting; drenched; drunk; drunken; dumb; fatuous; flaky; flustered; fond; fool; foolish; fou; fuddled; full; futile; gay; giddy; glorious; gripped; happy; held; idiotic; imbecile; inane; inebriate; inept; infatuate; infatuated; insane; intoxicated; jolly; loony; mad; maudlin; mellow; merry; muddled; nutty; obsessed; possessed; preoccupied; prepossessed; reeling; sappy; screwy; senseless; sentimental; silly; sodden; stinking; stupid; thoughtless; tipsy; wet; witless


    Some related collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    assistant adjutant; assistant attorney; assistant cashier; assistant chief; assistant counsel; assistant editor; assistant superintendent; assistant treasurer