scrivener

Example Sentences

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Instead, he decided to take the test to become a judicial scrivener, a job similar to being a paralegal that has a 3 percent acceptance rate.

From Washington Post • Oct. 17, 2021

Laurence Olivier, the first-season host, showed off his range in fine versions of Herman Melville’s existentially comic tale of the scrivener, “Bartleby,” and Robert Louis Stevenson’s “Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde.”

From New York Times • Feb. 20, 2021

In "Minor Feelings," Hong firmly rejects the idea of having the authority to act as a scrivener or "spokesperson" for any racial identity.

From Salon • Feb. 25, 2020

“With submission, what word, sir,” asked Turkey, respectfully crowding himself into the contracted space behind the screen, and by so doing, making me jostle the scrivener.

From Slate • Oct. 22, 2015

This gentleman had been a scrivener, and was one of the projectors of the well-known South-Sea Scheme or ‘Bubble,’ which ended in the total ruin of so many respectable families.

From The Curiosities of Heraldry by Lower, Mark Antony