Guest example sentences
Related (11): visitor, host, invitee, attendee, lodger, occupant, caller, companion, hospitality, welcome, entertain
"Guest" Example Sentences
Common Phrases
- guest of honor
- guest speaker
- guest bedroom
- guest house
- paying guest
- guest list
- guest room
- welcome guest
- unexpected guest
- guest star
- guest appearance
- guest parking
Examples by Level
A1
- We have a guest coming today.
- My guest is sleeping in the blue room.
- The guest ate all the cookies.
A2
- I wasn't expecting a guest when the doorbell rang at midnight.
- She brought her guest to the party, but nobody knew who he was.
- The guest complained about the noise from the street all night.
B1
- Having an unexpected guest show up is one of those moments that either makes or breaks your day.
- He treated the guest with such obvious coldness that the whole dinner felt uncomfortable.
- We'd prepared the spare room for a guest who cancelled last minute, so it just sat there empty.
B2
- The guest of honor spent most of the evening checking his phone, which said everything about how much he wanted to be there.
- She had a habit of treating casual guests like they were minor inconveniences, which explained why people rarely visited twice.
- What struck me most was how the guest managed to steer every conversation back to himself without seeming rude about it.
C1
- There's an unspoken tension that emerges when a guest overstays their welcome β not hostile, just the slow erosion of graciousness.
- The guest lecturer's dismissal of student questions revealed more about institutional hierarchy than any formal lecture could have.
- What we call hospitality often masks a careful calculation of obligation, especially when the guest is someone we feel we must accommodate.
C2
- The guest who arrives unannounced forces a particular kind of honesty β you see the household as it actually is, not as it's meant to be seen.
- She'd learned long ago that being the perpetual guest in other people's lives meant never quite belonging anywhere, a kind of freedom and isolation all at once.
- The distinction between guest and family member is less about duration and more about whether someone feels entitled to rearrange the furniture β and whether you'd let them.
Examples by Scenario
π Everyday Life
- My guest just asked where the bathroom was and I realized I have no idea if the light switch works.
- The dog started barking the moment our guest walked through the door like she'd personally insulted him.
- I told my guest to make himself at home and he actually did β now he's reorganizing my kitchen.
πΌ Workplace
- We had a guest speaker today who spent forty minutes talking about his own success and five minutes on the actual topic.
- My boss brought a guest to the meeting without warning, which meant everyone suddenly cared about looking busy.
- The guest from the client's office kept asking why our process took so long, which was awkward since we were all wondering the same thing.
π Business
- Our guest appearance on that podcast generated more leads than our last three campaigns combined.
- The guest CEO's keynote about disruption was ironic coming from someone whose company is actively being disrupted.
- We invited a guest consultant to audit our workflow, and her report basically confirmed what we already knew but couldn't admit.
π Buying / Shopping
- I'm trying to figure out what to cook for a guest who's vegan, gluten-free, and apparently doesn't like garlic.
- This guest bed is supposed to be comfortable but my sister said it felt like sleeping on a wooden plank.
- The store was out of the guest sofa I wanted, so now I'm stuck choosing between two things I don't actually like.
βοΈ Travel
- The hotel advertised itself as guest-friendly but charged extra for everything β the Wi-Fi, the parking, even the ice.
- Flying with someone else as your guest is different than traveling alone; you're constantly aware of whether they're having fun.
- Our guest house in the countryside had no cell service, which was either the best or worst thing depending on your perspective.
π Education
- The guest lecturer was brilliant but spoke so fast that half the class gave up taking notes.
- My daughter's school invited a guest author to speak, and she's been writing stories nonstop ever since.
- Having a guest teacher for the semester meant learning a completely different teaching style right when we'd gotten used to the last one.
β€οΈ Relationships
- When he introduced me as his guest instead of his girlfriend, I knew something had shifted between us.
- She showed up as my plus-one guest to the wedding and by the end of the night, she was the one everyone remembered.
- Being a guest in his family's home meant watching dynamics I'd never seen before β and understanding him differently because of it.
π° News / Politics
- The politician's guest appearance on the late-night show was clearly a damage-control move, and it didn't work.
- Guest contributors to the op-ed section have been increasingly critical of the administration's foreign policy.
- The news anchor's guest from the think tank contradicted the official statement within the first minute of the interview.
π» Technology
- The app has a guest mode now, which is great until you realize it tracks everything the guest does anyway.
- I set up a guest network on my Wi-Fi so visitors wouldn't have access to my files, but I still worry.
- The guest account feature is useful, but it's another password to remember and another thing that probably isn't secure.
π Formal Writing
- Guest workers in the agricultural sector face significant wage disparities compared to permanent employees in equivalent roles.
- The study examined guest satisfaction metrics across three major hotel chains and found notable variations in service consistency.
- Regulations governing guest access to institutional facilities have been updated to reflect current security protocols and compliance standards.