errand boy
Example Sentences
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When the Nazis came that night, she recognized one of them as a former errand boy of the business.
From Scientific American • Sep. 28, 2023
Besides serving as a reliably funny recurring bit, this is telling: between the ancient vampire newcomer and the errand boy who's been cleaning up after them for more than 13 years, Guillermo rates more highly.
From Salon • Sep. 1, 2023
The judge said that while Treanor has been described as "an errand boy", it was euphemism that "doesn't sit well with the gravity of the offence".
From BBC • Jan. 31, 2023
He was soon “recruited as a teenaged errand boy of British Intelligence,” he wrote in his 2016 memoir, “The Pigeon Tunnel.”
From Washington Post • Dec. 13, 2020
It’s Mrs. Janssen’s errand boy, the one who sold her opklapbed on the day she asked me to find Mirjam.
From "Girl in the Blue Coat" by Monica Hesse
