How to Use assistant in a Sentence

assistant

noun
  • Jack Herum returns for his fifth season with the Bucks as an assistant in the video room.
    Jim Owczarski, Journal Sentinel, 28 June 2023
  • Those staffers are in addition to the 10 full-time assistants.
    Jeff Potrykus, Journal Sentinel, 26 May 2023
  • King has been hired by the Chicago Bears as an assistant working with the running backs.
    Mike Freeman, USA TODAY, 22 Feb. 2024
  • Hazel is in the other room with Monét’s assistant, giggling along to music videos.
    Steven J. Horowitz, Variety, 31 Jan. 2024
  • Da Vinci had plenty of assistants that worked with him on his stuff.
    Ryan Faughnder, Los Angeles Times, 16 May 2023
  • Pinkett Smith then secretly called her assistant to book her a flight to L.A. the next morning.
    Michaela Zee, Variety, 17 Oct. 2023
  • The Amazon Astro can be your in-law’s new house pet and personal assistant.
    Micaela Arnett, Rolling Stone, 24 Nov. 2023
  • Sarah Williams, who lives in Kenosha, Wis., is an executive assistant and a new mom.
    Melissa Rohman, New York Times, 14 Mar. 2024
  • Her tennis shoes, freshly cleaned by a clubhouse assistant, were ready to go.
    Sally H. Jacobs, Town & Country, 15 Aug. 2023
  • Standing nearby is one of many assistants, ready with a water hose.
    Mark Jenkins, Washington Post, 1 Jan. 2024
  • Her last 17 seasons were spent with Paye, a former team captain, as an assistant.
    Joseph Dycus, The Mercury News, 11 Apr. 2024
  • Then Starr’s personal assistant came up with the idea to combine Starr’s drums and fashion sense into one book project.
    Adam Bell, Charlotte Observer, 22 Feb. 2024
  • Woody and wife Laura Louie — his former assistant — got married on an island in Maui in 2008.
    Skyler Trepel, Peoplemag, 8 Feb. 2024
  • Holtz has been hired as a special assistant to interim head coach David Braun but will only serve in the role for a few months, the reports stated.
    Victoria Hernandez, USA TODAY, 1 Aug. 2023
  • The pair have known each other for over a decade, with Preston starting off as Tyler's personal assistant in 2012.
    Emily Krauser, Peoplemag, 14 Aug. 2023
  • Kennedy worked as a part-time assistant football coach in Bremerton.
    Matt Ford, The New Republic, 8 Sep. 2023
  • His then 21-year-old design assistant, Yves Saint Laurent, went on to succeed him as the house’s head designer.
    Radhika Seth, Vogue, 9 Feb. 2024
  • The assistant took about 4-5 photos of my face from different angles.
    Tira Urquhart, Essence, 20 Dec. 2023
  • Gord Murphy, an assistant under Gallant the past two years, will not return.
    Stephen Whyno, BostonGlobe.com, 13 June 2023
  • Farr also offered a thank you to all assistant and contributing editors that worked on the film.
    Sophia Scorziello, Variety, 1 June 2023
  • Jeff Linder was an assistant at Boise State before taking over at Wyoming.
    Mark Zeigler, San Diego Union-Tribune, 24 Feb. 2024
  • Her assistant roasted her for a wardrobe malfunction on Snapchat.
    Elizabeth Logan, Glamour, 13 Nov. 2023
  • Voice assistants have been in cars, smartphones, TVs and home speakers for years, with millions of people using them daily.
    Gerrit De Vynck, Washington Post, 25 Sep. 2023
  • With the curtains drawn in a room inside the facility in Quebec, the man, who was in his 50s, and one of his friends watched the film on the screen of Villeneuve’s laptop — which the director’s assistant had flown in that day.
    Annabelle Timsit, Washington Post, 4 Mar. 2024
  • An assistant to the anesthetist was a family friend who recognized Karen and was distraught.
    Seth Abramovitch, The Hollywood Reporter, 31 Oct. 2023
  • Gutierrez Reed was struggling to fill two jobs on the production — armorer and props assistant.
    Meg James, Los Angeles Times, 6 Oct. 2023
  • Toward the end of the vigil, a graduate assistant asked the mourners to pray for political leaders.
    James Bandler, ProPublica, 21 Nov. 2023
  • Now, one crucial disclosure to all this: I wasn't allowed to interact with the voice assistant myself.
    Tim Stevens, Ars Technica, 17 Jan. 2024
  • The last two years Baffert has handed off those horses to former assistant Tim Yakteen to qualify for the Derby.
    John Cherwa, Los Angeles Times, 2 Nov. 2023
  • Longtime assistant Bill Dunckel has been named the interim coach.
    John Maffei, San Diego Union-Tribune, 8 Sep. 2023

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