ASSISTANT in a Sentence

Learn ASSISTANT from example sentences; some of them are from classic books. These examples are selected from a corpus with 300,000 sentences, including classic works and current mainstream media. Some sentences also link to their contexts.
268 example sentences for ASSISTANT, such as:
1. The assistant looked fagged out.
2. She is assistant to a professor.
3. he began, turning to the assistant.
4. The assistant asked some further questions.
5. The doctor was followed by a Russian assistant.
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Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
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 Meanings and Examples of ASSISTANT
assistant
 a.  of or relating to a person who is subordinate to another
 n.  a person who contributes to the fulfillment of a need or furtherance of an effort or purpose
Classic Sentence: (210 in 15 pages)
1  The doctor was followed by a Russian assistant.
War and Peace 2 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 5: CHAPTER XVII
2  The assistant asked some further questions.
War and Peace 2 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 5: CHAPTER XVII
3  The assistant looked fagged out.
War and Peace 2 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 5: CHAPTER XVII
4  The assistant, however, did not confirm the doctor's words.
War and Peace 2 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 5: CHAPTER XVII
5  "Makar Alexeevich has the list," answered the assistant.
War and Peace 2 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 5: CHAPTER XVII
6  But Rostov bowed himself away from the doctor and asked the assistant to show him the way.
War and Peace 2 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 5: CHAPTER XVII
7  Rostov and the assistant went into the dark corridor.
War and Peace 2 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 5: CHAPTER XVII
8  But, just because the assistant evidently did not want him to go in, Rostov entered the soldiers' ward.
War and Peace 2 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 5: CHAPTER XVII
9  he began, turning to the assistant.
War and Peace 2 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 5: CHAPTER XVII
10  Going along the corridor, the assistant led Rostov to the officers' wards, consisting of three rooms, the doors of which stood open.
War and Peace 2 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 5: CHAPTER XVIII
11  The cook and a shop assistant came to the gate.
War and Peace 4 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 10: CHAPTER IV
12  "You can't, Miss, we have tried to," said the butler's assistant.
War and Peace 4 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 11: CHAPTER XIV
13  "Why, it's a mercy if we can get the carpets alone into three cases," said the butler's assistant.
War and Peace 4 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 11: CHAPTER XIV
14  Rebecca's few and brief directions were given in the Hebrew language to the old domestic; and he, who had been frequently her assistant in similar cases, obeyed them without reply.
Ivanhoe By Walter Scott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXVIII
15  So she was assistant at Uthwaite hospital, just a little place, for a while.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H Lawrence
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 7
Example Sentence: (58 in 4 pages)
1  My assistant will now demonstrate the machine in action.
2  I can't attend the meeting but I'll send my assistant in my stead.
3  Clinton named a new assistant attorney general for civil rights, Deval Patrick, who persuaded the administration to switch sides.
4  He has been relegated to the position of an assistant coach.
5  He deputed the running of the department to an assistant.
6  An observant shop assistant had remembered exactly what the man was wearing.
7  The manager assistant came here to execute a few small commissions for the manager.
8  I am the formal leader of the project but the everyday management is in the hands of my assistant.
9  Kalan called his assistant, Hashim, to take over while he went out.
10  I'll ask my personal assistant to deal with this.
11  My job is somewhere between a secretary and a personal assistant.
12  He was stopped at the airport by an assistant superintendent of police.
13  She had earlier resigned her post as President Menem's assistant.
14  She is assistant to a professor.
15  I have been relegated to the role of a mere assistant.