coachman

Example Sentences

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The coachman produced a pink box with a glass slipper inside, telling them: "I've come to find a princess."

From Barron's • Feb. 12, 2026

On July 6, 1810, Tanner gave that amount to Joseph Dougherty, a coachman for Thomas Jefferson, who used it to purchase Tanner’s freedom from her owner, Rachel Pratt, who sold Tanner that same day.

From Washington Post • Jul. 23, 2022

He needs her help to get up in the air but she insists, “I am not a coachman for hire.”

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 5, 2019

Herring in a Fur Coat could be the title of a Soviet absurdist fable about a proletarian Cinderella who rejects the czarevitch and runs off with the rat turned coachman.

From New York Times • Mar. 26, 2015

“But why would the coachman do such a thing?”

From "The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place: Book I: The Mysterious Howling" by Maryrose Wood