How to Use bellman in a Sentence

bellman

noun
  • What is the standard tip for a bellman, room service or valet?
    — Judy Koutsky, Forbes, 31 Dec. 2022
  • So said the Moon Palace bellman who helped me to my room on arrival.
    — Baz Dreisinger, Forbes, 15 July 2022
  • Rest assured, the bellman is not sticking a cotton tip up your nose.
    — Washington Post, 12 Mar. 2021
  • The guns were discovered by a bellman who carried the heavy tennis bag containing the weapons to the man’s room.
    — Gabrielle Russon, orlandosentinel.com, 30 Dec. 2020
  • At the entrance, bellmen in crisp navy suits greet us like old friends—warm, genuine, and effortlessly polished.
    — Amy Louise Bailey, Travel + Leisure, 1 Dec. 2025
  • Tip your bellman, your housekeeper, your tour guide, the dancers at the strip club, the cocktail server who brings you free drinks at the slot machine.
    — Krista Diamond, Condé Nast Traveler, 29 May 2025
  • Imagine a hotel where, upon entry, instead of being greeted by a bellman, cops strip-searched you.
    — Daniel Gross, Slate Magazine, 14 Apr. 2017
  • Built in 1950, the place oozed elegance with top-hat bellman and balconies with sweeping views.
    — Marlise Kast-Myers, sandiegouniontribune.com, 20 July 2017
  • Monteith drove guests to scenic float trips on the nearby Snake River, and later worked as a bellman.
    — Rachel Siegel, Washington Post, 25 Aug. 2022
  • There is no Aspen-like A-frame lodge, nor a half-moon driveway where the bellman will meet you with a luggage trolley.
    — Candice Rainey, Condé Nast Traveler, 20 July 2018
  • Just beyond, a bellman stood at attention, offering keys to suite 10.
    — Ryma Chikhoune, Footwear News, 30 Jan. 2026
  • As the two men struggled, the girls ran to the front desk for help, and a bellman, Geshuane Clarke, 27, hurried to the room.
    — Michael Wilson, New York Times, 9 Aug. 2019
  • Her husband, Richard, worked as a bellman at the Hotel Portland downtown.
    — oregonlive, 7 Feb. 2022
  • Importantly, the bellman received a whopping tip and a note of recommendation from me.
    — John Evans, Forbes, 11 Dec. 2023
  • Even in the lobby of The Alexander, the bellman explained Armenia’s a late-to-bed, late-to-rise culture.
    — Marlise Kast-Myers, San Diego Union-Tribune, 8 Feb. 2026
  • Even in the lobby of The Alexander, the bellman explained Armenia’s a late-to-bed, late-to-rise culture.
    — Marlise Kast-Myers, Boston Herald, 12 Apr. 2026
  • Participates include cooks, room attendants, dishwashers, servers, bellmen and front desk agents.
    — USA TODAY, 3 July 2023
  • At the front desk, a receptionist offers us hot apple cider spiked with rum, and a few minutes later a bellman in a stylish Stio jacket delivers our gear to our room.
    — Gloria Liu, Travel + Leisure, 29 Nov. 2023
  • The show began on a retro note, with an actor dressed as bellman placing a dusty old copy of Hotel California on a turntable and placing a needle on the vinyl.
    — Dallas News, 1 Mar. 2020
  • The union represents bartenders, guest room attendants, cocktail and food servers, porters, bellmen, cooks and kitchen workers at 34 casino-resorts around town.
    — Spud Hilton, San Francisco Chronicle, 31 May 2018
  • The hotel staff now sports masks, white gloves, and buttons with their pictures for a dose of humanity—and all luggage is disinfected before the bellman delivers it to the room.
    — Jenna Scatena, Condé Nast Traveler, 30 June 2020
  • Sometimes they’re never seen again, in which case Emma dispatches a bellman to purchase new coverings, drawing on the hotel’s coffers, no matter the price.
    — Time, Time, 16 Aug. 2017
  • Housekeepers, cooks, bellmen, banquet servers, and front desk agents at the Battery Wharf Hotel went on strike Thursday morning.
    — USA TODAY, 6 Sep. 2019
  • One arrives in one’s hotel room sweaty and confused, tormenting over the bellman’s tip, and feels almost obliged to rush out and see either the Louvre or Notre-Dame.
    — Jay McInerney, Vogue, 16 Apr. 2019
  • His grandfather was a bellman at the Ahwahnee, now known as the Majestic Yosemite Hotel, and his grandmother was a store clerk.
    — Kurtis Alexander, San Francisco Chronicle, 1 Apr. 2018
  • And though guests are not supposed to use service elevators, the suit maintains, hotel bellmen helped Paddock take several loads of luggage up to his suites, six times over the next several days.
    — Michael Kiefer, azcentral, 28 June 2018
  • Bartenders, housekeepers, cocktail and food servers, porters, bellmen, cooks and other kitchen workers employed at 34 properties were eligible to vote.
    — Washington Post, 22 May 2018
  • Weiland came up with several modern-looking designs that can be worn by employees of both genders serving different roles, including valets, bellmen and front desk associates.
    — Nancy Trejos, USA TODAY, 29 Sep. 2017
  • Bartenders, housekeepers, cocktail and food servers, porters, bellmen, cooks and other kitchen workers employed at 34 properties are eligible.
    — Regina Garcia Cano, chicagotribune.com, 22 May 2018
  • The strikers are from Unite Here Local 11, representing cooks, dishwashers, servers, room attendants, bellmen, and front desk agents.
    — Catherine Garcia, The Week, 3 July 2023

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