purser

Example Sentences

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Laffey Inman fought to become the first female purser at what was then known as Northwest Orient Airlines.

From Seattle Times • Feb. 16, 2024

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

I’d look up from time to time, studying my fellow passengers and the crew: the captain in the wheelhouse, the purser counting the take.

From The New Yorker • Oct. 31, 2014

He sailed her for twenty years as captain and purser, her first route being a round trip every ten days between Kingston, York and Queenston.

From A Century of Sail and Steam on the Niagara River by Cumberland, Barlow