hotelkeeper

Example Sentences

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Riad al-Turk was born in Homs on April 17, 1930, to Mohammed Ali Turk, a local hotelkeeper who died when Riad was very young, and his wife, Amina, a woman of limited means.

From New York Times • Feb. 8, 2024

The hotelkeeper interfered at the last moment and the cream landed on Rep. Stevenson.

From Slate • Mar. 4, 2016

They discuss a deserter, his connection to the eponymous Auckland hotelkeeper, and his death in a Bulawayo teak forest, burned to charcoal by lightning.

From The Guardian • Jun. 21, 2012

The Russians ordered all cars cleared out of the hotel garage to make room for General Shtykov's cars; the harried hotelkeeper refused because General Hodge kept his own car there.

From Time Magazine Archive

Then the hotelkeeper would have to admit that there was no rule at all about penguins.

From "Mr. Popper's Penguins" by Florence Atwater and Richard Atwater