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"-er" in a Sentence (63 examples)

read + -er → reader

cook + -er → cooker

compute + -er → computer

run + -er → runner

toast + -er → toaster

swim + -er → swimmer

do good + -er → do-gooder

look + -er → looker (“an attractive person”)

keep + -er → keeper (“a person or thing worth keeping”)

astrology + -er → astrologer

baby boom + -er → baby boomer

conlang + -er → conlanger

cricket + -er → cricketer

trumpet + -er → trumpeter

zine + -er → ziner

six + -er → sixer

six foot + -er → six-footer

three-wheel + -er → three-wheeler

first grade + -er → first grader

percent + -er → percenter (“commission agent”)

one hand + -er → one-hander (“one-man show”)

oat + -er → oater (“a Western-themed movie”)

birth + -er → birther

flat earth + -er → flat-earther

truth + -er → truther

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woke + -er → woker

bacon + -er → baconer (“pig raised for bacon”)

chocolate chip + -er → chocolate chipper (“cookie containing chocolate chips”)

sternwheel + -er → sternwheeler (“vessel driven by a sternwheel”)

piss + -er → pisser (“a hilariously funny event or situation”)

New York + -er → New Yorker

London + -er → Londoner

Dublin + -er → Dubliner

New England + -er → New Englander

island + -er → islander

highland + -er → highlander

East End + -er → East-Ender

childer, calver, lamber, linder ("loins")

hard + -er → harder

wet + -er → wetter

motley + -er → motlier

eerie + -er → eerier

clayey + -er → clayier

twitter, clamber, bicker, mutter, wander, flutter, flicker, slither, smother, sputter

disclaim + -er → disclaimer

remit + -er → remitter

misname + -er → misnomer

rebut + -er → rebutter

attain + -er → attainder

shive + -er → shiver

slive + -er → sliver

splint + -er → splinter

association + -er → soccer (“association football”)

football + -er → footer (“association football”)

rugby + -er → rugger

Radcliffe + -er → Radder (“a building at Oxford University”)

clive + -er → cliver (“apt to cleave or adhere to, tenacious, expert as seizing”)

slip + -er → slipper (“tending to make slip, slippery”)

wake + -er → waker (“tending to wake, watchful”)

Li’er said hello to his father.

Yue’er began to laugh again and her tears shimmered like dew on a lotus leaf disturbed by a breeze. Then we heard a sound. It was Man’er.

The fish was laid out on the table, but Ping’er had not come back, nor had his father.

Ying’er was not yet three years old. Li’er had always been the one to play with her or to carry her places on his back.

Data sourced from Wiktionary, WordNet, CMU, and other open linguistic databases. Updated March 2026.