How to Use sous-chef in a Sentence

sous-chef

noun

• Jin takes the lead as head chef, while Jimin and V are his sous-chefs.
  — Anna Grace Lee, Vogue, 27 Mar. 2026
• One of my dreams is to be chef or sous-chef, here or at another restaurant.
  — Elena Kadvany, San Francisco Chronicle, 14 July 2022
• If only Roman were also a goddamned sous-chef, my life would have been fine.
  — Eddie Huang, Curbed, 17 Feb. 2026
• But on Wednesday, bartenders served spritzes and a sous-chef oysters behind its marble bar.
  — Kansas City Star, 24 Oct. 2025
• That’s bittersweet news for returning sous-chef Alesia.
  — Rafaela Bassili, Vulture, 3 Feb. 2026
• With the help of his new sous-chef Syd, Carmey transforms the eatery into an upscale establishment.
  — Glenn Garner, Deadline, 24 Aug. 2025
• Only 28% of people living with a partner are interested in having their partner act as sous-chef.
  — Sophia Beams, Better Homes & Gardens, 17 Feb. 2026
• And her Sydney, a sous-chef at one of the most hectic, anxiety-inducing restaurants in Chicago, would know.
  — Maggie Fremont, Vulture, 19 Sep. 2025
• Hsu had worked his way up from intern to sous-chef at the three-Michelin-star Benu, and also spent time at restaurants in Japan and Norway.
  — Elena Kadvany, San Francisco Chronicle, 28 Oct. 2024
• Jazmine Fenton The executive sous-chef has worked at Che Fico since 2018.
  — Elena Kadvany, San Francisco Chronicle, 14 July 2022
• Her sous-chef, Fida, outfitted in black, has prepped a huge pile of onions in a neat julienned stack for bistec encebollado con mandioca – a dish of seasoned beef with sautéed onions served with yuca.
  — Kendra Nordin Beato, Christian Science Monitor, 26 Mar. 2025
• At the top of the food chain are the chef de cuisine and sous-chef, followed by the chefs de partie, who are responsible for specific stations (sauces, seafood, cold dishes and so on), junior cooks or commis and trainees.
  — Vivian Song, CNN Money, 8 Aug. 2025
• Next to me line cooks, sous-chefs, and other assorted restaurant workers clad in athleisure are limbering up in the middle of a narrow street in downtown Manhattan, the skyscrapers casting us into shadow in the sunny weather.
  — Sam Stone, Bon Appetit Magazine, 12 Aug. 2025