Examples of guest in a Sentence

Noun Our guests should be arriving soon. Only invited guests are allowed inside the banquet hall. He played at the country club as a guest of one of the members. Our guests receive the finest quality service. Frequent guests receive a discount.

Recent Examples on the Web: Noun The semester-long class has featured numerous guest speakers, including Georgians who have survived harrowing battles with COVID-19 and addiction, experts from the Dart Center and fellow journalists from The AJC. — Todd Duncan, ajc, 12 May 2022 In the weeks leading up to the summit, UJC will release further details about the event, guest speakers and panel discussions, according to a press release. — Ashlee Banks, Essence, 12 May 2022 Hong is also looking forward to the ceremony on May 10, where guest speakers include Jamie Lee Curtis and Kim. — Jenelle Riley, Variety, 10 May 2022 Hong, 93, who was joined by celebrity guest speakers Daniel Dae Kim and Jamie Lee Curtis, unveiled his star in a ceremony, becoming one of just 19 people of Asian descent to make it on the walk out of more than 2,700. — Kimmy Yam, NBC News, 10 May 2022 Sometimes members brought in guest speakers or prisoners would put on their own presentations, like tips for a successful parole hearing. — oregonlive, 8 May 2022 Featuring a procession of colors, guest speakers and patriotic music. — Cindy Kent, Sun Sentinel, 6 May 2022 The event has typically included a roster of guest speakers along with activities and discussions. — Bradford Betz, Fox News, 3 May 2022 The program brings pregnant women with similar due dates together in a small group setting to provide interactive learning sessions featuring games and guest speakers. — Francine Knowles, Chicago Tribune, 2 May 2022 Recent Examples on the Web: Verb In addition to Underwood and Bernsen, original star Jill Eikenberry was slated to guest star in the drama that featured new characters played by the likes of Toks Olagundoye, Hari Nef, Ian Duff, Juliana Harkavy and Kacey Rohl. — Lesley Goldberg, The Hollywood Reporter, 13 May 2022 From birdies and eagles to guest appearances from deer and alligators, golf has long-enjoyed a connection with the animal kingdom. — Jack Bantock, CNN, 6 May 2022 Ninja, one of the most popular Twitch streamers, will guest star this season as Slayer. — oregonlive, 1 May 2022 Featherson-Jenkins will guest star as India Blue, a beautiful, confident, cool and incredibly successful singer/songwriter/producer. — Selome Hailu, Variety, 27 Apr. 2022 Since then, Willem Dafoe and Sofia Vergara have entered Bart's classroom at Springfield Elementary School to guest star as his teacher. — Dory Jackson, PEOPLE.com, 22 Apr. 2022 On Monday, Disney+ announced that Justin Bartha will return to guest star in the upcoming original series of the same name, reprising his fan-favorite role of everybody's favorite nerdy sidekick Riley Poole. — Andrea Towers, EW.com, 11 Apr. 2022 Remington Hoffman and Samantha Cutaran also guest star in this new episode of the comedy. — Los Angeles Times, 7 Apr. 2022 The very last men’s basketball game at the Frank Erwin Center featured plenty of extracurricular distractions and guest appearances from some of the men who once called this 45-year-old heap of concrete their homecourt. — Nick Moyle, San Antonio Express-News, 28 Feb. 2022 See More

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History and Etymology for guest

Noun

Middle English gest, gyst, gust, gist "person to whom hospitality is extended, visitor, stranger," going back to Old English giest, gyst, gest, gæst (with Middle English g probably in part from Old Norse gestr), going back to Germanic *gasti- (whence also Old Frisian jest "guest," Old Saxon & Old High German gast "guest, stranger," Old Norse gestr, Gothic gasts "stranger") going back to dialectal Indo-European *ghost-i- "outsider, guest," whence also Old Church Slavic gostĭ "guest," Latin hostis "foreigner, stranger" (in early use), "enemy"

Note: An etymon limited to three western Indo-European branches. Further analysis of the word has been made on the basis of early use of Latin hostis, taken to mean, on the basis of the Law of the Twelve Tables, "outsider due the same right of ownership as a Roman citizen"; from the same base would be hostus "yield of olive oil from a single pressing" (narrowed from a presumed more general "yield, compensation"), the derived verb hostīre "to recompense, requite," and the noun hostia "sacrificial animal, sacrifice" ("recompense to the gods," perhaps originally feminine of an adjective *hostius, the deleted noun having designated an animal; see host entry 5). Ancestral *ghos-ti- could hypothetically be a derivative of an Indo-European verbal base *ǵhes- "take, give in exchange." With the loss in later Roman practice of the strict legal meaning, Latin hostis became restricted in meaning to "hostile outsider, enemy." This shift is noted by varro, who remarked that hostis was used by "our ancestors" in a sense now covered by peregrīnus (see pilgrim).

Verb

Middle English gesten, derivative of gest guest entry 1

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