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

“I was an innkeeper in this crazy little town in Vermont ... “

From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 18, 2024

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

But Shelley Hunter, an innkeeper from Quincy, Calif., has been watching the reservations for this June, July and August, and she says that’s nonsense.

From Seattle Times • Apr. 24, 2023

The southern travellers had lost several horses and blamed the innkeeper loudly, until it became known that one of their own number had also disappeared in the night, none other than Bill Ferny’s squint-eyed companion.

From "The Fellowship of the Ring" by J.R.R. Tolkien