How to Use receptionist in a Sentence

receptionist

noun

• And be sure to tell the receptionist to keep the change.
  — Cailey Rizzo, Travel + Leisure, 22 Oct. 2021
• The receptionist’s desk was framed by the outline of bright red lips.
  — Anne Helen Petersen, Wired, 9 Dec. 2021
• He was greeted at the front desk by a receptionist on a small video screen.
  — Ryan Kost, San Francisco Chronicle, 3 Feb. 2022
• The receptionist was polite and again told me all the ways to pay without cash.
  — Jay L. Zagorsky, Fortune, 10 Apr. 2023
• The images flick by on the screen: the buffet line, a smiling receptionist, the pond with two gray ducks.
  — Clare Sestanovich, The New Yorker, 6 Nov. 2023
• As the vase smashed into tiny pieces, the receptionist looked at me sternly and pointed to the door.
  — Sarah Grant, SPIN, 16 Sep. 2022
• Same with your team — all members from the receptionist on up.
  — Domenic Rom, Rolling Stone, 17 Sep. 2021
• That worker told her about there being a shooter on the fourth floor, the receptionist said.
  — Arkansas Online, 29 Sep. 2022
• What’s up with the helpful but strange receptionist at RSM?
  — Maggie Fremont, Vulture, 19 Sep. 2021
• There was only a receptionist and the doctor at the practice.
  — WSJ, 10 Jan. 2022
• After working part time for over four years, the wife hired a new lady as a receptionist.
  — Annie Lane, cleveland, 30 Dec. 2022
• In the background, a receptionist made a round of phone calls to remind students to turn in their assignments.
  — Rebecca Griesbach | , al, 11 Apr. 2023
• The average room costs $63 per night, the receptionist said.
  — Antonio Planas, NBC News, 23 May 2022
• In this analogy, your router acts as a kind of receptionist.
  — Courtney Linder, Popular Mechanics, 13 July 2022
• Deirdre had heard of a job that might suit her, as a receptionist for a doctor who’d gone to medical school with Dennis.
  — Tessa Hadley, The New Yorker, 21 Mar. 2022
• Curry went to the front desk to complain and was told by the receptionist that the employee was an engineer at the hotel.
  — Mirna Alsharif, NBC News, 12 Dec. 2022
• Pay your receptionist fifty dollars so that you can be allowed to bring your briefcase to work.
  — Ali Solomon, The New Yorker, 3 Dec. 2021
• All one has to do is inform the receptionist that a new name should be entered into the computer.
  — Abigail Van Buren, oregonlive, 7 Dec. 2021
• And then there’s her day job, as a receptionist at her art-school alma mater, to pay her landlord, who dallies on fixing the heater.
  — Doreen St. Félix, The New Yorker, 22 June 2023
• But after climbing out of the cab and limping up a staircase, a receptionist directs him back to the first building.
  — New York Times, 9 Feb. 2022
• Starks, who works two receptionist jobs, also braids hair part-time.
  — Washington Post, 3 Sep. 2021
• She’s done a lot of different jobs there, including in the food program and as a receptionist.
  — John Kelly, Washington Post, 27 Dec. 2022
• The receptionist at the hotel’s front desk, who remembered Bolles taking a call there.
  — Richard Ruelas, The Arizona Republic, 28 Sep. 2022
• The receptionist said no. Nolen was discussing the matter with the office manager when the doctor she was scheduled to see walked in.
  — Washington Post, 25 Jan. 2022
• When this happens, everyone at the company—from the janitor, to the receptionist, to the CEO—gets shares.
  — Bill Keen, Forbes, 22 Feb. 2023
• After studying the map, Domingues and Smith drove to the most likely complex, but the receptionist didn’t think Saldaña had arrived.
  — New York Times, 12 Nov. 2021
• There was no receptionist either, just a note to ring the doorbell for assistance.
  — Chris Anderson, USA TODAY, 7 July 2022
• When people managed to get through, there were long delays to reach live receptionists.
  — Carmen Sesin, NBC News, 7 Mar. 2024
• That disaster took the life of the mother of our newsroom receptionist, the cousin of my hairstylist and the brother of a family friend.
  — Diane Bell, San Diego Union-Tribune, 22 July 2023
• The receptionist glanced up at my beaming, barely teenaged face framed by two thick dirty-blond pigtails that went past my shoulders.
  — Michaela Angela Davis, The Atlantic, 5 Mar. 2022

Last Updated: 28 May 2024