How to Use server in a Sentence

server

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  • She asked our server for another glass of wine.
  • Plex has two parts: the Plex server and the Plex client.
    — Jim Rossman, Dallas News, 23 Apr. 2023
  • To pay the bills, Schier works as a server in a restaurant.
    — Josh Rottenberg, Los Angeles Times, 9 Aug. 2023
  • Also, servers who never tell me their name, the soup of the day, the fish of the day, etc. are not adding value.
    — Ticked Off, Orlando Sentinel, 8 Jan. 2024
  • Bartenders chat with guests while servers bustle about with trays of food and drinks.
    — The Arizona Republic, 26 Feb. 2024
  • Schwartz and Sandoval were the first of the Vanderpump Rules servers and bartenders to break out on their own.
    — Sam Burros, Peoplemag, 7 Aug. 2023
  • Russia also has not shut down access to the Counter-Strike servers.
    — Peter Aitken, Fox News, 4 May 2023
  • Of course, this trend hasn’t been good for restaurant servers who in some cases have seen their pay drop.
    — Laurie Ochoa, Los Angeles Times, 17 Feb. 2024
  • Your device and those of your colleagues are sending video to Zoom’s servers.
    — Barath Raghavan, IEEE Spectrum, 5 Nov. 2023
  • Later that morning, the same server found what appeared to be a live mouse stuck on a trap along the wall of the restaurant.
    — Cindy Carcamo, Los Angeles Times, 4 Dec. 2023
  • Cassie was a 21-year-old server who lived with her parents, and Oliver was 18 years old and still in high school.
    — Bysydney Lake, Fortune, 3 Sep. 2023
  • Across the globe, data centers are stacked to the ceiling with shelf after shelf of humming servers.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 16 Nov. 2023
  • Consider a company that stores users’ emails in the cloud — that is, on a vast array of servers.
    — Michael Greshko, Quanta Magazine, 10 Jan. 2024
  • The server didn’t want to be named due to fear of retaliation.
    — Cindy Carcamo, Los Angeles Times, 3 July 2023
  • Blaylock said data is now backed up to a cloud server instead of the district’s servers.
    — Noah Alcala Bach, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 8 Mar. 2024
  • The 21-year-old server sang the song at her grandfather's funeral.
    — Oliver Steele, USA TODAY, 2 May 2023
  • Fornite Chapter 5 Season 2 was set to release on March 8, but with servers down what's going on with the game?
    — Dina Kaur, The Arizona Republic, 8 Mar. 2024
  • There was a large data center with many cages and rows of servers housing and processing the data for the business.
    — Ben Debow, Forbes, 11 Dec. 2023
  • With Chef Masa’s encouragement, Ruan soon took a gamble, moving from server to chef, from the front of the house to the back.
    — Paul Winner, Travel + Leisure, 17 May 2023
  • The idea of scanning your entire home and uploading it to Amazon’s servers will rightly scare a few folks.
    — Jennifer Pattison Tuohy, The Verge, 14 Nov. 2023
  • Half the restaurants in Washington could learn a lesson from my first server at Leo.
    — Tom Sietsema, Washington Post, 9 June 2023
  • Even the name of the Discord server, Thug Shaker Central, is a racist reference.
    — Tori Otten, The New Republic, 27 Apr. 2023
  • Food and drink items are brought to moviegoers by servers trained not to disrupt the movie experience.
    — Zack Sharf, Variety, 3 Apr. 2024
  • So Team Red faces an uphill battle to beat Intel in the laptop, desktop, and server space.
    — Michael Kan, PCMAG, 12 May 2023
  • But Meta retains your posts and data on its servers until a user fully deletes it.
    — Bystephen Pastis, Fortune, 6 July 2023
  • In a video posted to Instagram, a server is seen handing out the pizza bags from a box hanging from her neck.
    — Ana Calderone, Peoplemag, 15 Jan. 2024
  • There are glossy concrete floors that give the space the feel of a polished warehouse and servers deliver plates in a comfortable uniform of plaid shirts and jeans.
    — Detroit Free Press, 6 Mar. 2024
  • Your server will be dressed in the familiar blue Oxford-cloth shirt with a striped tie tucked between two buttons.
    — Pete Wells, New York Times, 3 Oct. 2023
  • In restaurants, servers would come over to coo at him and make conversation with us in the process, despite the language barrier.
    — Emily Siner, NPR, 5 Mar. 2024
  • It was printed from an anonymous account linked to a private server.
    — Elliot Ackerman, WIRED, 12 Feb. 2024

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