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

And it was all the more remarkable because the twelfth child of an Alpine hotelkeeper was so late in showing an interest in the sport.

From Time Magazine Archive

The hotelkeeper brings him bread and cheese in a basket made from dark wicker, covered nicely with a cotton napkin: everything shipshape.

From "All the Light We Cannot See" by Anthony Doerr