deskman

Example Sentences

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To all the Archbishop had to say, that unhappy deskman could only gulp and stammer.

From Time Magazine Archive

The State Department deskman had no one to call but a Pentagon deskman�who apparently did not realize the cable's contents warranted bothering a higher-up.

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They paused as a telephone buzzed, and stared at the deskman who picked it up.

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In comparison to Voight's unswerving dedication, Beatty's mania seems just about as workaday as a deskman collecting box scores from the local high schools.

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But new-comers pressed forward and kept trying to convince the deskman that he had rooms somewhere, rooms that he had forgotten, or was saving for people who would never arrive.

From The Cup of Fury A Novel of Cities and Shipyards by Raleigh, Henry