How to Use assistant in a Sentence

assistant

noun
  • Even the assistants were shocked the red card was shown.
    Ali Rampling, New York Times, 6 Mar. 2026
  • Smith calls over to his assistant.
    Kansas City Star, 22 May 2026
  • This isn't just a rolling assistant.
    Kurt Knutsson, FOXNews.com, 9 Jan. 2026
  • Again, perfect as a new smart assistant and alarm clock in one.
    Nena Farrell, Wired News, 11 July 2025
  • Texas has not one, not two but three special assistants to the head coach.
    Dana O’Neil, CNN Money, 31 Oct. 2025
  • Will there be changes to assistant coaches?
    Shreyas Laddha, Kansas City Star, 10 Apr. 2026
  • Why not make Patrice Evra his assistant?
    James Horncastle, New York Times, 10 Jan. 2026
  • One Del Oro assistant coach asked whether the staff had a choice.
    Nicole Buss, Sacbee.com, 21 Feb. 2026
  • Check out this massive list of terms that can trigger your smart assistants.
    Kim Komando, USA TODAY, 11 May 2023
  • Once the singer was set on the carpet, her assistant handed her a sword to pose with.
    Maggie Clancy, WWD, 11 Sep. 2024
  • How does a head coach know when an unproven assistant is ready for that challenge?
    Nicki Jhabvala, New York Times, 12 Feb. 2026
  • The assistant shuffled to one side and the scene reset.
    Christopher Borrelli, Chicago Tribune, 25 June 2026
  • Both head coaches have been assistants for the other team.
    Bennett Durando, Denver Post, 17 Apr. 2026
  • Brian asked — a notion so far-fetched that his assistant laughed out loud.
    Andy Greene, Rolling Stone, 18 June 2026
  • Take a lollipop from my assistant.
    Cora Frazier, New Yorker, 3 Nov. 2025
  • The camera assistant slipped on the wet rocks while filming.
    James Russell, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 30 Oct. 2025
  • Who are the new assistant sheriffs?
    Milena Malaver, Miami Herald, 27 Mar. 2026
  • His assistant coaches lift him, swarm him, and someone trips.
    Franklin Leonard, Vanity Fair, 14 May 2026
  • Six Super Bowls as a head coach and two more as an assistant.
    Mike Bianchi, The Orlando Sentinel, 31 Jan. 2026
  • Do not use an AI chat assistant to find this number.
    Zak Doffman, Forbes.com, 11 Sep. 2025
  • But at least this junior assistant got free handbags and a major glow-up out of it.
    David Fear, Rolling Stone, 29 Apr. 2026
  • Calipari’s assistants had to pull him away from midcourt.
    ABC News, 1 Mar. 2026
  • As Bond tells it, her assistant found Moo at a farm nearby.
    Anna Chan, Billboard, 15 Oct. 2025
  • Simone hires Zoe as her assistant, in what appears to be a dream job.
    Carly Tagen-Dye, PEOPLE, 11 June 2026
  • Da Vinci had plenty of assistants that worked with him on his stuff.
    Ryan Faughnder, Los Angeles Times, 16 May 2023
  • The last nine days have seen Pratt go from assistant to interim head coach.
    Kevin Reynolds, The Salt Lake Tribune, 22 Apr. 2022
  • It’s meant to be an AI assistant for your browsing needs.
    Jibin Joseph, PC Magazine, 15 Apr. 2026
  • After getting them down with the aid of a ladder, the store assistant had to wipe off the dust.
    Tim Parks, New Yorker, 11 Apr. 2026
  • At least one Nuggets assistant asked him to autograph a print-out of the box score.
    Bennett Durando, Denver Post, 14 Mar. 2026
  • That’s the tax paid for having so much success, as other teams will want to hire away your assistants.
    Connor Riley, AJC.com, 13 Mar. 2026

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