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 of a Toyota was cited for driving on a closed road at 8 p.m. on May 9.
  — Thomas Jewell, cleveland, 21 May 2022
• 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
• Shell is the largest oil operator in the Niger Delta, Africa’s largest oil-producing region.
  — Krystina Shveda, CNN, 25 May 2022
• 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
• But since the spring legislative session ended, Ford has had joint meetings with cannabis and hemp operators in an attempt to reach some compromise.
  — Robert McCoppin, Chicago Tribune, 3 June 2025
• Sunday after a subway tower operator noticed a train making an unauthorized move on the express track near the Liberty Ave.
  — Evan Simko-Bednarski, New York Daily News, 4 June 2025