bouncer

Example Sentences

Examples are provided to illustrate real-world usage of words in context. Any opinions expressed do not reflect the views of Dictionary.com.

“We think of this as having a bouncer at the front door looking at what’s coming in, and then another bouncer at the back door being like, ‘Well, what’s going out?’”

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 3, 2026

But I think I was really a bouncer, like, “No, you can take the stairs.”

From The Wall Street Journal • May 27, 2026

She did say, however, that she was “the first female bouncer in Berlin,” and that was “at a Hells Angel discotheque.”

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 18, 2026

At the end of the fifth Test against Australia, it emerged Harry Brook was punched by a nightclub bouncer in Wellington on the white-ball tour of New Zealand that preceded the Ashes.

From BBC • Mar. 23, 2026

Derrick the bouncer still had me in a killer grip, but we were nearly the same height.

From "Shelter (Book One): A Mickey Bolitar Novel" by Harlan Coben