Example sentences for: stewardess

How can you use “stewardess” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • A familiar example: reasoning that in terms of job duties the sex or gender of the person who passes peanuts on an airplane is unimportant, editors of the Handbook of Nonsexist Language propose flight attendant rather than steward/stewardess and oppose gratuitous regendering of job titles ( female flight attendant ). (A court case notes a male purser and a female stewardess with identical job descriptions, but different salary scales.)

  • They also welcome his rehabilitation of '70s blaxploitation heroine Pam Grier, who stars as a money-laundering stewardess trying to scam both her boss (Samuel L. Jackson) and a federal agent (Michael Keaton).

  • Prostitutes are playfully known as gerla girl-a, super-gerla, spermatorka, spermara, sperm-usha, stewardess, and, because they walk the pavements, granit.

  • At 9:00, Lee Hanson received a second call from his son Peter: It's getting bad, Dad-A stewardess was stabbed-They seem to have knives and Mace-They said they have a bomb-It's getting very bad on the plane-Passengers are throwing up and getting sick-The plane is making jerky movements-I don't think the pilot is flying the plane-I think we are going down-I think they intend to go to Chicago or someplace and fly into a building-Don't worry, Dad- If it happens, it'll be very fast-My God, my God.

  • A German-speaking stewardess, drafted into an interpretive role by the terrorists, played a heroic role by insisting that all of the Germanic-sounding names were really “pure” German, not Jewish.


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