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

Or because, by that time, our messenger boy had, in fact, grown up to become a Bacardi advertising executive.

From Seattle Times • Jun. 28, 2023

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

Gerry Halvey, the messenger boy, won’t be in for a week because he’s entided to his holidays and he wants to spend the time with his girlfriend, Rose, who’s coming back from England.

From "Angela's Ashes: A Memoir" by Frank McCourt