hotelkeeper

Example Sentences

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Riad al-Turk was born in Homs on April 17, 1930, to Mohammed Ali Turk, a local hotelkeeper who died when Riad was very young, and his wife, Amina, a woman of limited means.

From New York Times • Feb. 8, 2024

The hotelkeeper interfered at the last moment and the cream landed on Rep. Stevenson.

From Slate • Mar. 4, 2016

They discuss a deserter, his connection to the eponymous Auckland hotelkeeper, and his death in a Bulawayo teak forest, burned to charcoal by lightning.

From The Guardian • Jun. 21, 2012

Her father, a hotelkeeper in Santa Monica, laughed at Nellie's notion that Palm Springs would boom if it had a good boarding house; you couldn't even get to it on the railroad.

From Time Magazine Archive

The hotelkeeper brings him bread and cheese in a basket made from dark wicker, covered nicely with a cotton napkin: everything shipshape.

From "All the Light We Cannot See" by Anthony Doerr