messenger boy
Example Sentences
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Growing up around his father’s law office, he became a messenger boy in the state Senate, where he met Gov. Earl Warren, the future chief justice.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 10, 2025
However, while studying at college, he became attracted to film-making and after a spell working for General Motors quit his job and went to work at 20th Century Fox as a messenger boy.
From BBC ● May 12, 2024
Corman got his start as a messenger boy for Twentieth Century-Fox, eventually graduating to story analyst.
From Seattle Times ● May 11, 2024
By the time he was 14 he had his first job in the financial industry, working as a messenger boy for a Manhattan mortgage company.
From New York Times ● Jul. 18, 2023
I’m the new boy and I have to be messenger boy while he’s gone, cycling around Limerick on the bicycle with the big metal basket in front.
From "Angela's Ashes: A Memoir" by Frank McCourt
