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
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
As the story goes, a 14-year-old Cuban messenger boy named Fausto Rodriguez working for the U.S.
From Seattle Times • Jun. 28, 2023
I lift the box and try to look like a messenger boy making a delivery and no one says a word.
From "Angela's Ashes: A Memoir" by Frank McCourt
