office boy

Example Sentences

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Despite being an advocate for education today, Sir Jack had no interest in school and left at 13, getting a job as an office boy soon after.

From BBC • Jul. 19, 2020

He grew up in Croton-on-Hudson, N.Y., and, while on his summer vacation from high school, was an office boy at The New Yorker.

From New York Times • Feb. 23, 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