How to Use teller in a Sentence

teller

noun
  • The bank teller turned over some cash, and the man left the bank.
    The Oregonian/oregonlive, oregonlive, 23 Mar. 2023
  • The man walked up to the bank teller and showed the note on the deposit slip.
    Kaylee Remington, cleveland, 11 Dec. 2021
  • Sign up to be a teller here: storytellersproject.com/tell.
    Roxanne De La Rosa, The Arizona Republic, 27 Jan. 2022
  • When the teller stood still in shock, Allen cursed and took off.
    oregonlive, 14 Apr. 2021
  • Venters walked up to the teller counter and tossed bag on the counter.
    Nick Powell, Houston Chronicle, 5 Feb. 2020
  • The robber passed a note to a teller and left the bank with an undisclosed amount of cash.
    Christine Dempsey, courant.com, 30 Mar. 2021
  • The teller gave the robber $4,160 in cash, according to the FBI.
    Jason Meisner, chicagotribune.com, 25 June 2021
  • The man walked up to two tellers and demanded all of the money, the FBI said.
    Kaylee Remington, cleveland, 15 Feb. 2020
  • Brown was able to track down nearly all the tellers who’d been robbed.
    Mara H. Gottfried, Twin Cities, 12 Apr. 2024
  • Again, the bank teller complied, and the woman fled with cash.
    Washington Post, 19 Feb. 2020
  • The teller complied and gave the man an undisclosed amount of money.
    Kaylee Remington, cleveland, 11 Dec. 2021
  • Theodore John Conrad, who worked as a teller at the bank, has been named as the man behind the heist.
    Catherine Garcia, The Week, 14 Nov. 2021
  • The teller handed over $800 in cash and sounded a silent alarm.
    Jason Meisner, chicagotribune.com, 5 Oct. 2021
  • The suspect grabbed the money out of the teller’s drawer and put it in the bag, according to the FBI.
    Cliff Pinckard, cleveland, 5 Mar. 2021
  • The teller obliged and Justice fled in a green Ford Taurus.
    Raquel Coronell Uribe, NBC News, 23 June 2024
  • The man walked up to the bank teller counter and displayed a note stating this was a robbery.
    Madeline Mitchell, The Enquirer, 15 Sep. 2020
  • The teller complied and gave him an undisclosed amount of cash.
    Kaylee Remington, cleveland, 13 May 2021
  • After the teller passed over cash, the thief walked out, limping.
    Teri Figueroa, San Diego Union-Tribune, 3 Nov. 2020
  • The teller complied, and the man left with an undisclosed sum of money.
    Ian James, Los Angeles Times, 7 June 2024
  • Granholm’s father started as a bank teller and rose to become the head of a bank.
    Michela Tindera, Forbes, 21 June 2021
  • The teller handed over an undisclosed amount of money, and the man left.
    David Hernandez, San Diego Union-Tribune, 30 Dec. 2020
  • The teller handed over an undisclosed amount of cash and the robber was last seen walking out of the bank.
    Alex Riggins, San Diego Union-Tribune, 12 Jan. 2022
  • The suspect also passed a note to a teller and escaped on foot.
    Cliff Pinckard, cleveland, 25 Aug. 2020
  • What is the connection between the teller and the subject?
    Addie Morfoot, Variety, 21 July 2023
  • But he felt called to serve as a truth-teller in a confusing time.
    Michael Bush, Fortune, 12 Apr. 2021
  • My mom, who had been available to me seven days a week, had to take a job as a bank teller.
    Marc Myers, WSJ, 15 Nov. 2022
  • The teller handed him $2,099, as well as a GPS tracker.
    Jessica Anderson, baltimoresun.com, 24 Mar. 2021
  • Bullet holes still marked the walls and small spots of blood stained the shattered teller machine.
    Devoun Cetoute, Miami Herald, 8 June 2024
  • In April, he was ordered by a judge in Oklahoma to pay $10.8 million to a bank teller for injuries and punitive damages sustained during the Bixby robbery.
    Rishikesh Rajagopalan, CBS News, 6 Sep. 2024
  • In the nineteen-sixties and seventies, such voices replaced humans in all manner of service jobs, from telephone operators to bank tellers, but those voices were almost universally female.
    Jill Lepore, The New Yorker, 30 Sep. 2024

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