How to Use barista in a Sentence

barista

noun
Definition of baristanext
  • Like the barista at your favorite coffee shop, learn and use people’s names.
    — Expert Panel®, Forbes, 10 May 2021
  • If the friendly barista is gone, another will likely take her place.
    — New York Times, 27 Mar. 2021
  • All three of those goals have been top complaints from customers and baristas in recent years.
    — Amelia Lucas, CNBC, 22 Oct. 2024
  • A year of unrest has at times forced this barista to double as his own security.
    — Neil Giardino, ABC News, 5 May 2021
  • Ready to see a personable young barista being smothered with pillows?
    — Joe Queenan, WSJ, 2 Apr. 2021
  • And don’t be afraid to chat with a stranger, reconnect with your barista or strike up a conversation at the dog park.
    — New York Times, 4 May 2021
  • Victor, the barista, will no doubt add cinnamon to my chai as a consolation prize.
    — Kevin Fisher-Paulson, San Francisco Chronicle, 4 May 2021
  • Samantha Koenig, a barista in Anchorage, was one of those victims.
    — Peter Van Sant, CBS News, 13 Mar. 2021
  • The planet on which Jane gets her coffee from some barista is the same in which the last hummingbird dies in a dwindling forest.
    — Noah Berlatsky, Los Angeles Times, 30 Mar. 2021
  • Ask your barista to blend a biscotti into your Frappuccino.
    — Kate Friedman, Glamour, 18 Mar. 2021
  • My heart sank when our daughter, who works part-time as a barista while attending college, notified us that one of her co-workers came down with Covid-19.
    — Roberta Matuson, Forbes, 15 Apr. 2021
  • The developer of an app played for great laughs, Matt is at a very different point than Anna, a 26-year-old barista who dreams of going back to school.
    — Toni Fitzgerald, Forbes, 27 Apr. 2021
  • One Starbucks barista took to Reddit to share their version of a keto-friendly caramel macchiato, which is normally packed with sugar and carbs.
    — Zee Krstic, Good Housekeeping, 7 Apr. 2021
  • Niccol added that the company wants to empower it’s baristas by offering benefits such as the opportunity to earn a four-year college degree.
    — Francisco Velasquez, Quartz, 23 Oct. 2024
  • The video showed the barista break free as the man dropped the money and sped away.
    — Christopher Brito, CBS News, 17 Jan. 2023
  • The owner and barista hold court with the two old-timers at the counter.
    — Sacramento Bee, 30 Jan. 2024
  • The barista is able to break free and the suspect then drives off, the video shows.
    — Meredith Deliso, ABC News, 18 Jan. 2023
  • Greet and thank the clerk at the grocery store or the barista who makes your coffee.
    — Dallas News, 1 Sep. 2021
  • The 21-year-old is from Castle Rock, CO, is a barista by day, a broom singer on the side.
    — Lars Brandle, Billboard, 14 Mar. 2022
  • The barista had saved a few for co-workers wanting to buy them.
    — Tamara Walker, The Enquirer, 26 Jan. 2024
  • The coffee shop where the barista knew her order closed.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 18 Sep. 2021
  • The whole store is bear-themed, with both the plastic cups and the baristas wearing bear ears.
    — The Arizona Republic, 4 Mar. 2024
  • There’s nothing that says that the barista won’t throw this coffee at me.
    — David Marchese Photograph By Mamadi Doumbouya, New York Times, 2 Feb. 2024
  • Lots of options on the menu, and the baristas were super friendly.
    — Bahar Anooshahr, The Arizona Republic, 10 Aug. 2023
  • The barista was able to fight off the attacker, who dropped his cash onto the ground and fled in the pickup truck.
    — Bradford Betz, Fox News, 18 Jan. 2023
  • James Michael Tyler, who played the Central Perk barista, was the show's most frequent guest star.
    — The Editors, Marie Claire, 27 May 2021
  • The 22-year-old works as a barista at The Maine Bean & Tea, where the heat has caused a surge in sales of the shop’s blue raspberry slushie.
    — John Bacon, USA TODAY, 21 June 2024
  • Then a barista behind the counter remembered to push play on the sound system.
    — Matt Wake | Mwake@al.com, al, 10 Nov. 2022
  • Though he’s worked as a line cook, a prep chef, and a barista, Souvall didn’t plan on a career in food.
    — Stefene Russell, The Salt Lake Tribune, 29 Nov. 2022
  • Tom Lyttle, 21, works as a barista at a coffee shop on Shankill Road.
    — Amanda Ferguson, Washington Post, 11 Apr. 2023

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