office boy

Example Sentences

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After the war, he was hired as an assistant office boy at Simon & Schuster and eventually rose to sales manager, with a special eye for children's books.

From Los Angeles Times • May 29, 2019

But her family soon bounced back, her mother becoming a successful interior designer while her father worked his way from office boy to director at a paint company.

From BBC • Oct. 9, 2017

Mr. Hamilton, who had no interest in following his father into the British diplomatic service, entered films at 17 as a studio office boy.

From Washington Post • Apr. 21, 2016

His assistant and only employee, besides an office boy, was his fiancée, twenty-year-old Blanche Wolf, whom he married a year later and who worked for the company the rest of her life.

From The New Yorker • Apr. 11, 2016

An office boy came along to direct me.

From "Invisible Man" by Ralph Ellison