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
Following a brief stint as a “bobbin boy,” changing spools of thread at a Pittsburgh clothing manufacturer at age thirteen, he subsequently became a telegram messenger boy.
From Textbooks • Dec. 30, 2014
A native of Washington, DC, Hoover had started out as a messenger boy at the Library of Congress.
From "The Woman All Spies Fear" by Amy Butler Greenfield
