coachman

Example Sentences

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The coachman produced a pink box with a glass slipper inside, telling them: "I've come to find a princess."

From Barron's • Feb. 12, 2026

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

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 5, 2019

Herring in a Fur Coat could be the title of a Soviet absurdist fable about a proletarian Cinderella who rejects the czarevitch and runs off with the rat turned coachman.

From New York Times • Mar. 26, 2015

Wiebenson learned, for example, that a coachman, his wife and son, and three boarders once lived in her house.

From Washington Post • Apr. 13, 2012

Dame Olga continued, “With a coachman and two footmen, they will be safe from everything except ogres. And from ogres I could offer little protection. Besides, they’ll have more fun without their old mother.”

From "Ella Enchanted" by Gail Carson Levine