messenger boy
Example Sentences
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Growing up around his father’s law office, he became a messenger boy in the state Senate, where he met Gov. Earl Warren, the future chief justice.
From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 10, 2025
However, while studying at college, he became attracted to film-making and after a spell working for General Motors quit his job and went to work at 20th Century Fox as a messenger boy.
From BBC • May 12, 2024
Corman got his start as a messenger boy for Twentieth Century-Fox, eventually graduating to story analyst.
From Seattle Times • May 11, 2024
By the time he was 14 he had his first job in the financial industry, working as a messenger boy for a Manhattan mortgage company.
From New York Times • Jul. 18, 2023
My parents have come from all the way across the city at the behest of the messenger boy Father Masego sent for them.
From "Beasts of Prey" by Ayana Gray
