purser

Example Sentences

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Laffey Inman fought to become the first female purser at what was then known as Northwest Orient Airlines.

From Seattle Times • Feb. 16, 2024

The place is run efficiently and with zest by veterans of South African Airways, Theunis Botha, who was a purser, and Denise Potter, who was an air hostess.

From New York Times • Apr. 11, 2019

I’d look up from time to time, studying my fellow passengers and the crew: the captain in the wheelhouse, the purser counting the take.

From The New Yorker • Oct. 31, 2014

Purser The purser, who controlled food and drink onboard, was a robust, strong and muscular man, with good teeth and an old head wound which had healed.

From BBC • May 30, 2013

We realised that our observations had been imperfect; and so, being ever desirous of improving ourselves, we offered to put the purser on shore in the Dragon Fly.

From West African studies by Kingsley, Mary Henrietta