office boy

Example Sentences

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But after his discharge, a girlfriend told him that The Times was looking to hire an office boy in the photography department for $30 a week.

From New York Times • Apr. 5, 2023

It was in 1890 that Arthur Beale joined the company as an office boy and the shop was re-named after him in the early 1900s.

From BBC • May 12, 2021

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