How to Use innkeeper in a Sentence

innkeeper

noun
  • Meanwhile, your innkeepers have to heave your luggage up from the boat.
    — Tribune News Service, The Mercury News, 14 Feb. 2024
  • Meanwhile, your innkeepers have to heave your luggage up from the boat.
    — Christopher Reynolds, Los Angeles Times, 11 Jan. 2024
  • The innkeeper got his mother to come over with a liter of gas, Vouras said.
    — Pamela McLoughlin, Hartford Courant, 4 June 2024
  • Don Quixote bragged to an innkeeper that his horse was the finest that ever ate bread.
    — Julia Skinner, Longreads, 16 July 2022
  • The evil innkeeper killed them and stuffed their bodies in a pickle barrel.
    — Lizz Schumer, Good Housekeeping, 16 Nov. 2020
  • Finally, the innkeepers open the doors of the home to let the pilgrims in.
    — Paula Soria, AZCentral.com, 15 Dec. 2025
  • 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 rest goes to the innkeepers for guest food and wine, basic supplies and laundry service.
    — Sarah Feldberg, SFChronicle.com, 12 Sep. 2019
  • The innkeepers are friendly, helpful and passionate about their city.
    — Moira McCarthy, Boston Herald, 6 Apr. 2025
  • Talk to farmers, fishermen, and innkeepers about their daily lives.
    — National Geographic, 12 June 2019
  • Taillon said the two biggest revenue sources are the innkeepers tax and casino revenues.
    — Alexandra Kukulka, Chicago Tribune, 12 Nov. 2024
  • The innkeeper who greets the same families every season.
    — Big Think, 9 Oct. 2025
  • But while their guests routinely add a dash of color to the place, their innkeeper tales are more straightforward.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 24 Dec. 2019
  • The show-within-a-show stars Valerie as Beth, an innkeeper at a bed and breakfast.
    — Chris Murphy, Vanity Fair, 20 Mar. 2026
  • Roosevelt hammered on the door and eventually roused the innkeeper, who cursed him for spoiling his sleep.
    — H.w. Brands, Time, 22 Oct. 2019
  • This is a back-and-forth dialogue exchange between innkeepers and pilgrims in chorus rhythm.
    — Paula Soria, AZCentral.com, 15 Dec. 2025
  • 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
  • Butt adds that most of the previous innkeepers have come from places outside of California.
    — Celia Fernandez, CNBC, 7 Dec. 2024
  • The diner closed in 2000, but Miller stayed on as innkeeper for the floating bed-and-breakfast.
    — Frederick Melo, Twin Cities, 5 Oct. 2019
  • Daily walks run 7 to 13 miles, bags are transferred inn to inn, and innkeepers prepare specialty evening meals.
    — Hanna Wickes, Kansas City Star, 4 June 2026
  • 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
  • In many places the State Department has become little more than an innkeeper for other agencies.
    — Michael Gfoeller and David H. Rundell, MSNBC Newsweek, 1 May 2025
  • At the Celo Inn, the innkeeper has an artifact — a rotary phone — in the entryway.
    — Beth Thames | [email protected], al, 6 Apr. 2022
  • Deok-su also has a mystery to solve, a mystery that’s connected to the inn and the innkeeper, played by Kim Min-jung.
    — Joan MacDonald, Forbes, 22 Dec. 2024
  • Her great-grandparents, innkeepers in modern-day Belarus, were massacred by the Nazis along with most of their town.
    — Hannah Jackson, Vogue, 18 June 2026
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • Instead of a psychiatrist, Newhart played a Vermont innkeeper and TV talk show host.
    — Kristen Lopez, IndieWire, 18 July 2024
  • And thanks to a new crop of boutique hotels in the area, there’s no shortage of places to stay, where innkeepers go above and beyond to make your experience feel like something special.
    — Jessica Sulima, Condé Nast Traveler, 1 June 2026

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