purser

Example Sentences

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The brothers made their professional debut as children, when their father put them on a boat to Detroit to visit an uncle and told the purser the boys would put on a free show.

From Washington Post • Mar. 30, 2023

Davies, originally from Cheshire, began his TV career as an announcer on Southern Television in 1960, having previously spent seven years as a purser for the cruise company Cunard Line.

From BBC • Feb. 19, 2023

The place is run efficiently and with zest by veterans of South African Airways, Theunis Botha, who was a purser, and Denise Potter, who was an air hostess.

From New York Times • Apr. 11, 2019

Megan Allison, the ship’s purser, is filling in as cook the first night.

From Seattle Times • Sep. 15, 2016

The purser of those days was taken from an inferior class of men, and often obtained his position by influence, rather than merit.

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