How to Use bellboy in a Sentence

bellboy

noun
  • The bellboy knocks on their door, takes the tray, and leaves.
    — Sophie Calle, Harper's Magazine, 16 Feb. 2011
  • The bellboys will drive you anywhere at any hour of the night.
    — Mark Ellwood, Condé Nast Traveler, 14 May 2020
  • In the finale, Melrose enters the ring on the shoulders of two shirtless bellboys.
    — Judy Berman, New York Times, 25 June 2018
  • As a result, union members who work as maids and bellboys at $400-a-night hotels pay nothing for their health care.
    — Patrick McGeehan, New York Times, 19 July 2017
  • That note, along with a second written to the same bellboy, was auctioned off in Israel yesterday.
    — Sy Mukherjee, Fortune, 25 Oct. 2017
  • Lewis plays a mute bellboy who keeps getting into predicaments at a Miami hotel.
    — Lawrence Toppman, charlotteobserver, 20 Aug. 2017
  • Its cast of characters includes bellboys, chefs, managers, hotel owners and lawyers.
    — Moira Hodgson, WSJ, 20 June 2019
  • Einstein gave the scribbled message to a bellboy in lieu of a tip during a tour of Japan in 1922.
    — Leah Silverman, Town & Country, 25 Oct. 2017
  • Roy was five years younger and hungry for adventure, having abandoned school and an equally unhappy childhood to work as a bellboy at sea.
    — Chris Jones, The Atlantic, 13 Oct. 2022
  • The men worked as Pullman porters, railroad workers, construction workers, waiters and bellboys.
    — Vincent T. Davis, San Antonio Express-News, 14 Dec. 2017
  • In the version repeated most often, Jensen traveled across the country to see her boyfriend, a bellboy at a neighboring hotel.
    — Scott Craven, azcentral, 28 Oct. 2019
  • The business’ original emblem was a bellboy carrying luggage under one arm and a traveling bag under the other.
    — Robert Daniels, Vulture, 25 Nov. 2021
  • Once a bellboy at the Savoy Hotel in London, Guccio was inspired by the luxurious luggage of the upper-class guests to craft his own leather bags.
    — Robert Daniels, Vulture, 25 Nov. 2021
  • Danziger, who has a gray beard and was sporting a red tie, is a veteran of the industry, having started as a bellboy at the Fairmont in San Francisco more than forty years ago.
    — Dana Goodyear, The New Yorker, 26 Jan. 2017
  • Hospitality consultant Dean Minett says successful hotels in 2020 will have robot bellboys that check in your bags.
    — Kevin Maney, Newsweek, 24 Jan. 2018
  • Somehow, McCarthy’s assurance makes these clichés seem new again, donning them as naturally as O’Connell’s gawky bellboy wearing an old-fashioned red cap.
    — Amy Nicholson, Los Angeles Times, 30 Apr. 2026
  • There are other smart musical concepts, including a constantly dancing bellboy and a lively ensemble of down-and-out Hollywood Boulevard denizens.
    — Christopher Arnott, Hartford Courant, 28 Apr. 2022
  • During one performance, when actor Max Christian Pink was escorting her away from her father and toward safety, her hair got caught in one of the many buttons on Pink's bellboy uniform.
    — Jim Higgins, Journal Sentinel, 14 Dec. 2022
  • And yet, other stories have been twisted over time, Leehrsen said, including tales of Cobb brandishing a gun and hitting a black butcher who insulted his wife and punching a black bellboy and black watchman at a Cleveland hotel.
    — Bill Dow, Detroit Free Press, 16 May 2020
  • Hong Kong’s long-running fascination with Japan plays out at The Repulse Bay, where Human Made hangs clothes on vintage bellboy trolleys and its Curry Up outpost feeds locals who treat Tokyo as a second home.
    — Paul Jebara, Condé Nast Traveler, 20 Nov. 2025

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