water boy
Example Sentences
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He drove the golf carts, acted as a water boy, and looked like he had a blast.
From Seattle Times • Oct. 2, 2023
Unable to play football, he was the team’s water boy.
From Washington Post • Apr. 12, 2023
Todd Haley, who would go on to become an NFL head coach, was a Steelers water boy in that game, as his father, Dick, was the team’s top personnel executive.
From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 8, 2022
When he was 12, Mr. Poitier quit school and became a water boy for a crew of pick-and-shovel laborers.
From New York Times • Jan. 7, 2022
He said the water boy had just brought news to the field hands, and it had been passed from one to the other until it reached him.
From "Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad" by Ann Petry
