coachman

Example Sentences

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He needs her help to get up in the air but she insists, “I am not a coachman for hire.”

From Los Angeles Times

The coachman maintained that the horse had reacted to a passing bicycle, which had sent the creature into a state of terror.

From New York Times

Annie’s addiction propelled her from the top of the working class, wife of the head coachman on a country estate, into a hand-to-mouth existence hawking crocheted antimacassars and flowers.

From Washington Post

The story, set in 1855, involves a strapping young coachman named Hans, who’s driving a pompous businessman to Vienna when a wheel breaks on the open road.

From The New Yorker

Spa, with its hotels and casinos, swarmed with coachmen and cleaners, waiters, cooks and the laundresses who organized themselves in small ateliers.

From Washington Post