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

Why do the hotelkeeper, the banker and the lawyer first fawn upon him, then try to threaten and bully him out of town?

From Time Magazine Archive

Now and then a startled hotelkeeper would object to having the birds register there.

From "Mr. Popper's Penguins" by Florence Atwater and Richard Atwater