Tend a toddler

Usage examples of babysit.

Careers were made on high-flying deals, not by babysitting bean counters.

As soon as two other members of the squad had driven down from Kingston Crescent to babysit the flat in case the Scousers turned up, Winter and Suttle would escort Pullen to Central police station where, Winter explained, the Custody Sergeant had volunteered an empty cell.

And here he sat, twiddling his thumbs with make-work yard projects, babysitting the sexiest woman alive.

Betsy had been in the little parlor updating her babysitting appointment book.

James and I always used to get into trouble when Patricia was babysitting us as a kid.

I was just babysitting him throughout the day and wanted to put us both at ease.

Also, since she babysits for all the rich doctor types when she is not attending rehearsals, she knows all the gossip in town.

He knew the bats there, and he liked pretty Suchevane, who had babysitted him on occasion while Mach or Bane was busy.

One morning, babysitting for a little girl who had caught the chicken pox, sitting by her as she lay thoughtlessly in a lukewarm oatmeal bath, stoically flicking the water with her finger and occasionally moaning like a small animal, he felt a sudden gust of happiness sweep through him, simply because he was the old widower of the neighbourhood, and people used him as a babysitter.

Price Junior College, an agro school that got confused and wound up with a bedroom-community commuter day-care babysitting population of twenty-five thousand acne-festooned urchins taking dingbat classes in Science Fiction, Artificial Flowers I, Bowling, Inert Gas Welding and Current Events in the Arts (which, so help me, Amen-Ra, turns out to be a course in how to be a good audience).

Luanne Carrandine was a little surprised when Rex asked her to babysit, but after the usual heavy flirting, she agreed to help out.

There weren't a lot of facilities for kids, and I guess what must have happened was that Jon volunteered to sort of babysit while my parents were at work.