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 have fireplaces flying forward,” said Olivia Cobian, the innkeeper at the Gingerbread Mansion, a bed-and-breakfast in the historic town of Ferndale, as sirens wailed in the background Thursday morning.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 5, 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

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 smith gave the innkeeper a knowing look.

From "The Name of the Wind" by Patrick Rothfuss