How to Use innkeeper in a Sentence

innkeeper

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  • Meanwhile, your innkeepers have to heave your luggage up from the boat.
    — Tribune News Service, The Mercury News, 14 Feb. 2024
  • And who killed the innkeeper with a sword after a fight?
    — Isabella Kwai, New York Times, 2 Nov. 2023
  • Don Quixote bragged to an innkeeper that his horse was the finest that ever ate bread.
    — Julia Skinner, Longreads, 16 July 2022
  • The diner closed in 2000, but Miller stayed on as innkeeper for the floating bed-and-breakfast.
    — Frederick Melo, Twin Cities, 5 Oct. 2019
  • Meanwhile, your innkeepers have to heave your luggage up from the boat.
    — Christopher Reynolds, Los Angeles Times, 11 Jan. 2024
  • The innkeeper told us that the week before, a biker from the U.K. had died after a heart attack up on the pass.
    — Ray Hanley, Arkansas Online, 29 May 2023
  • The rest goes to the innkeepers for guest food and wine, basic supplies and laundry service.
    — Sarah Feldberg, SFChronicle.com, 12 Sep. 2019
  • The evil innkeeper killed them and stuffed their bodies in a pickle barrel.
    — Lizz Schumer, Good Housekeeping, 16 Nov. 2020
  • The innkeeper, Martin Röhrig, is helping him to get work visas for his parents.
    — Katrin Bennhold, New York Times, 25 Dec. 2017
  • But making the public take measure of him against other innkeepers is a fine way to make a point.
    — Petula Dvorak, Washington Post, 20 June 2019
  • The attentive innkeepers helped us drag our luggage up to our room.
    — Mary Anastasia O’Grady, WSJ, 11 Mar. 2018
  • Olivier’s face could be made to look like Picasso’s, the innkeeper Josep Fondevila’s like an African mask, and so on.
    — Sebastian Smee, Washington Post, 10 Jan. 2024
  • Both Airbnb and HomeAway say many of their eclipse hosts are new to the respective platforms and might not be used to acting as innkeeper.
    — Elliot Njus, OregonLive.com, 3 Aug. 2017
  • At the Celo Inn, the innkeeper has an artifact — a rotary phone — in the entryway.
    — Beth Thames | Bethmthames@gmail.com, al, 6 Apr. 2022
  • Farnsworth was an innkeeper, and he and Davis were married until his untimely death in 1943.
    — Joanna Robinson, VanityFair.com, 13 Mar. 2017
  • But while their guests routinely add a dash of color to the place, their innkeeper tales are more straightforward.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 24 Dec. 2019
  • Instead of an innkeeper, Tradewell has become a pool keeper.
    — Karen Heller, Washington Post, 20 July 2022
  • Roosevelt hammered on the door and eventually roused the innkeeper, who cursed him for spoiling his sleep.
    — H.w. Brands, Time, 22 Oct. 2019
  • His father, also named Martin, was an innkeeper and coal merchant who died when Martin was 10.
    — Clay Risen, New York Times, 11 Aug. 2023
  • The innkeeper, played with disturbing seriousness and warmth by Malcolm McDowell, offers them wine and a chance to get out of the cold and tell their tale.
    — Joshua Dudley, Forbes, 28 Dec. 2022
  • Each one has been restored to reflect the historical era during which it was built and features its own innkeeper.
    — Wendy O'Dea, Travel + Leisure, 20 Mar. 2023
  • In Maine, where unemployment is 3 percent, innkeepers and other employers have been hit hard by the dearth of H-2B visas.
    — Miriam Jordan, The Seattle Times, 8 June 2017
  • Talk to farmers, fishermen, and innkeepers about their daily lives.
    — National Geographic, 12 June 2019
  • After a decade of trying to become an innkeeper — but struggling to find a co-captain — Heveroh had almost given up.
    — Annie Vainshtein, San Francisco Chronicle, 7 May 2021
  • The Book of Joshua reports that Rahab, a Jericho innkeeper, betrayed her king's confidence.
    — Ron Grossman, chicagotribune.com, 15 May 2017
  • Spurious legend has it that a voyeuristic innkeeper in Bologna was peeking through a keyhole to spy on Venus, Mars and Bacchus in the middle of a hot and heavy threesome.
    — Silvia Marchetti, CNN, 26 Apr. 2022
  • Her role here, like the other innkeepers, is to firmly push the guests toward taking concrete steps to self-sufficiency.
    — John Carlisle, Freep.com, 1 Dec. 2019
  • Learning a few phrases of the local language is always a nice icebreaker and shows respect, and please be patient with busy hut and innkeepers.
    — Doug Mayer, Outside Online, 15 Feb. 2023
  • Many Ashland innkeepers can offer guests discounts – up to 75 percent off OSF ticket prices – and make all the arrangements.
    — oregonlive, 9 Feb. 2020
  • But just when Ellen starts to find her happily ever after in the meek and modest innkeeper, her fiancé shows up in town thwarting her new romance.
    — Michelle Darrisaw, Southern Living, 13 Dec. 2017

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