bellboy

Example Sentences

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Somehow, McCarthy’s assurance makes these clichés seem new again, donning them as naturally as O’Connell’s gawky bellboy wearing an old-fashioned red cap.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 30, 2026

“He cut it out of the wall with a chisel. A bellboy even helped load the pieces in a truck.”

From The Guardian • Mar. 23, 2020

Behind Marlon, the doors of the Carlyle opened and a bellboy emerged walking backward with a tower of Louis Vuitton luggage on a trolley and Elizabeth at his side.

From The New Yorker • Jun. 1, 2015

A bellboy in a top hat and white gloves ushered him, his New York girlfriend and his Danish publicist into a black van that deposited them at the gritty Graham Street Market.

From New York Times • Jul. 11, 2013

The bellboy who took them up wasn’t a boy and hadn’t a bell.

From "The God of Small Things" by Arundhati Roy