innkeeper

Example Sentences

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“I believe everything out of the common,” says the innkeeper.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 23, 2025

The innkeeper, for instance, is infatuated with a guest named Jack, an actor who may also be a fugitive; he claims to have pensions from both the Confederate and Union armies.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 14, 2023

Audience members also got a glimpse of Olivia Colman as a Cockney innkeeper and Sally Hawkins as Wonka's mother.

From BBC • Apr. 28, 2023

The later show, which featured Newhart as a Vermont innkeeper, ended with him waking up in Chicago next to his on-screen wife from “The Bob Newhart Show,” revealing the second series to be dream.

From Seattle Times • Apr. 24, 2023

The innkeeper handed over a coin and the smith stuffed them into an old burlap sack.

From "The Name of the Wind" by Patrick Rothfuss