How do you use Stewardess in a sentence? See 10+ example sentences showing how this word appears in different contexts, including synonyms like hostess or steward, plus the exact meaning.
Stewardess meaning
- A female flight attendant (a member of the crew of an airplane who is responsible for the comfort and safety of its passengers).
- A woman who works at housekeeping and passenger service aboard a ship, yacht, or other type of boat that carries passengers.
- A female steward (any sense).
Using Stewardess
- The main meaning on this page is: A female flight attendant (a member of the crew of an airplane who is responsible for the comfort and safety of its passengers). | A woman who works at housekeeping and passenger service aboard a ship, yacht, or other type of boat that carries passengers. | A female steward (any sense).
- Useful related words include: air hostess, hostess, steward, flight attendant.
- In the example corpus, stewardess often appears in combinations such as: air stewardess, the stewardess, as stewardess.
Context around Stewardess
- Average sentence length in these examples: 22.5 words
- Position in the sentence: 2 start, 13 middle, 5 end
- Sentence types: 18 statements, 1 questions, 1 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Stewardess
- In this selection, "stewardess" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 22.5 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, air, airline, qantas, ordering, says and phyllis stand out and add context to how "stewardess" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include a qantas stewardess will announce and a yacht stewardess. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "stewardess" sits close to words such as abra, accies and accommodative, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with stewardess
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
How long have you been a yacht stewardess? (8 words)
Mother, 54, who threatened to punch a Ryanair air stewardess. (10 words)
Kiriaki Katsogresaki: The Greek hot air stewardess of the Saudi Royal Family! (12 words)
Not one to be cowed into submission Pallavi, with some help from airline executive Vishal (Tovino), embarks on a new career as an air stewardess, once again battling prejudices, until one day it falls on her to save the day. (40 words)
A drunk father-of-three hurled vile abuse at an air stewardess who refused to serve him more alcohol on a flight - then bit a police officer's arm after he was arrested, a court heard. (36 words)
When one arrives in the Australian capital Sydney after an endless flight, a Qantas stewardess will announce that “We acknowledge the Traditional Custodians of the land on which we work, live and fly. (33 words)
How long have you been a yacht stewardess? (8 words)
Kiriaki Katsogresaki: The Greek hot air stewardess of the Saudi Royal Family! (12 words)
Example sentences (20)
A drunk father-of-three hurled vile abuse at an air stewardess who refused to serve him more alcohol on a flight - then bit a police officer's arm after he was arrested, a court heard.
Her video records an airline stewardess ordering passengers around the stricken aircraft in an apparent bid to right it.
The stewardess also listed other items you should not be wearing when flying for the sake of comfort, practicality and safety.
When one arrives in the Australian capital Sydney after an endless flight, a Qantas stewardess will announce that “We acknowledge the Traditional Custodians of the land on which we work, live and fly.
Amy Hart quit her job as stewardess for she landed a spot in season 5 of Love Island.
Hazel, who loved her job as an air stewardess, was back home in from London, where she lived with three friends in fashionable Kensington.
He can’t just let the police handle the case as he’s fallen hard for the stewardess.
In 1962, she reached her life-long dream of becoming an airline stewardess with American Airlines; a position she held for 33 years.
The 25-year-old air stewardess says she would never board a plane hungry just in case you end up fancying food during the long haul journey.
How long have you been a yacht stewardess?
In 1961, he divorced before marrying air stewardess Phyllis Sims two years later.
Kiriaki Katsogresaki: The Greek hot air stewardess of the Saudi Royal Family!
Gabie Chreiki takes part to further her passion for travel and hopes of working as a stewardess on luxury yachts in the future.
Not one to be cowed into submission Pallavi, with some help from airline executive Vishal (Tovino), embarks on a new career as an air stewardess, once again battling prejudices, until one day it falls on her to save the day.
Pam Grier stars as the eponymous heroine, a drugs-smuggling air stewardess who attempts to pit the cops against her ruthless boss.
A commotion arose a few rows behind me, a man ran to the bathroom and stayed there for a good few minutes before coming out and getting the stewardess' attention.
His girlfriend Josie Cross was a stewardess with PSA (Pacific Southwest Airlines) and was currently stationed in San Francisco.
It occured to me recently when I was coming out of an interview that to fans I’m like the stewardess of the character, almost.
Mother, 54, who threatened to punch a Ryanair air stewardess.
On Saturday, a Bangladeshi man was detained after he removed his clothes and attacked a stewardess during a Malindo Air flight from Kuala Lumpur to Dhaka on Saturday.
Common combinations with stewardess
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- air stewardess 10×
- the stewardess 4×
- as stewardess 3×
- stewardess who 2×
- airline stewardess 2×
- stewardess with 2×
- stewardess of 2×
- stewardess and 2×