How to Use innkeeper in a Sentence

innkeeper

noun

• 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
• 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 | [e-mail], 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
• All goes according to plan until Anna meets Declan, a local innkeeper who agrees to drive her to Dublin after she gets waylaid in Cork.
  — Marisa Lascala, Good Housekeeping, 13 Jan. 2023
• On Nina’s porch, Katie reproduced their exchange with the innkeeper, altering her voice and accent and acting out his grudge.
  — The New Yorker, 8 Nov. 2021

Last Updated: 25 Jul 2024