innkeeper
Example Sentences
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Often have I recalled the scene in John Buchan’s spy thriller “The 39 Steps” when the protagonist, Richard Hannay, tells his true but unlikely story to an innkeeper.
From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 23, 2025
The introverted Ms. Grade acknowledged that she was a most unlikely innkeeper.
From New York Times • Mar. 17, 2024
“Perhaps Jack the boarder had seeded his own rumors,” the innkeeper observes.
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
Vermeer was an innkeeper, too, and then an art dealer.
From "Chasing Vermeer" by Blue Balliett
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
