How to Use operator in a Sentence

operator

noun
  • Call the operator for the phone number.
  • She's quite an operator—no one else could have gotten them all to agree to the project.
  • Operator, please connect me with extension 123.
  • The 911 operator told the teen that help was on the way, the suit states.
    Jonathan Edwards, Washington Post, 6 Oct. 2023
  • From there, find a tour operator to take you to the park.
    Scott McMurren, Anchorage Daily News, 19 Nov. 2022
  • This will alert the lock operator to open the gate to allow the fish to swim through.
    Moná Thomas, People.com, 21 Mar. 2025
  • There is no way for an operator to tell that this wasn’t just a pile of snow.
    Zachariah Hughes, Anchorage Daily News, 31 Dec. 2022
  • This means that operators will not have to maintain sight of the drones.
    April Roach, CNBC, 15 Aug. 2024
  • But don't tell that to the operator of your favorite book.
    Jeremy Cluff, The Arizona Republic, 26 Sep. 2022
  • The operator of the food truck did not want to comment on the proposal.
    Jordyn Noennig, Journal Sentinel, 31 Mar. 2023
  • Cruise operator Carnival had the strongest week of the names that made the list with a gain of more than 13%.
    Brian Evans, CNBC, 11 Oct. 2024
  • The costs have led to tensions between the company and operators in the past.
    Danielle Wiener-Bronner, CNN, 22 Sep. 2023
  • Of course, the operators will have all gone under well before the losses get that far out of hand, but the greater point stands.
    Anthony Crupi, Sportico.com, 10 Jan. 2025
  • Typically, a drone has to be in the line of sight of its operator.
    Naheed Rajwani-Dharsi, Axios, 2 Aug. 2024
  • Ironman, the largest operator of mass sporting events in the world, just went all-in on trail running?
    Andy Cochrane, Outside Online, 21 Sep. 2022
  • Most recently, a TriMet operator was stabbed at the end of her route on March 13.
    Chris Pandolfo, Fox News, 23 Mar. 2023
  • What did all this mean for cinema operator stocks in the past year?
    Etan Vlessing, The Hollywood Reporter, 29 Dec. 2023
  • The operator has two live camera views and has to check the cameras before opening the bridge, the report states.
    Minyvonne Burke, NBC News, 17 Aug. 2022
  • Regions on the Texas map were based on the state grid operator’s list of counties within each of the grid’s weather zones.
    Gabriel J.x. Dance Zach Levitt, New York Times, 9 Apr. 2023
  • Passengers called 911, pulled open doors and tried to call the train operator.
    Sarah Freishtat, Chicago Tribune, 27 Dec. 2022
  • Then, my operator, Lee, who ran that section, is then at the wheels getting ready.
    Sarah Shachat, IndieWire, 21 Mar. 2025
  • Then, my operator, Lee, who ran that section, is then at the wheels getting ready.
    Sarah Shachat, IndieWire, 21 Mar. 2025
  • Thomas describes the dairy—and its owner and operator Russ Kohler—as embodying the ethics of the region.
    The Editors, Outside Online, 23 Dec. 2024
  • Hawaiian Airlines is the largest operator of flights to and from the Hawaiian islands.
    cleveland, 3 July 2022
  • The owner of the island, meanwhile, failed to make sure the operators had examined the risks properly, the judge added.
    Chris Lau, CNN, 1 Mar. 2024
  • The county and the operators arranged a new concessions agreement, which could run for up to two years.
    Stephanie Breijo, Los Angeles Times, 27 Oct. 2023
  • If a score drops too low, Ford stops that charger from showing up in the Ford Pass network and has words with its operator to get things fixed.
    Jonathan M. Gitlin, Ars Technica, 13 July 2022
  • Pellot had told the 911 operator his wife may have taken some pills.
    Erin Moriarty, CBS News, 16 Dec. 2023
  • But while state law requires operators of county jails to join 287(g) programs, nothing explicitly requires cities to do so.
    Verónica Egui Brito, Miami Herald, 17 Apr. 2025
  • The agency is also expected to release its first request for proposals for the initiative in over a decade, giving after-school operators a rate increase and helping to stabilize the sector.
    Cayla Bamberger, New York Daily News, 29 Apr. 2025

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