porter
Example Sentences
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The commute to his Manhattan porter job is convenient, too.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 11, 2026
As a $5.28-an-hour porter he had to scrap 15,000 square feet of trash every 60 minutes.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 10, 2026
Scrawled in chalk in the list of draft beers was the Edmund Fitzgerald porter, a longtime brew from the Great Lakes Brewing Co.
From Slate ● Nov. 10, 2025
The unchanged names in the series, which premieres Thursday on Netflix, belong to the four children of Benjamin Lee Guinness, whose grandfather created the signature porter in 1778.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 25, 2025
When that shift was over, Barlea then worked his second shift, in the morning, as a porter.
From "Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference" by Warren St. John
Vocabulary lists containing porter
"The Landlady" by Roald Dahl
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