How to Use receptionist in a Sentence

receptionist

noun
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  • And be sure to tell the receptionist to keep the change.
    — Cailey Rizzo, Travel + Leisure, 22 Oct. 2021
  • The receptionist slid a piece of paper across the desk.
    — Seyward Darby, Longreads, 19 July 2024
  • 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
  • A few days ago the owner of the clinic where his wife works as a receptionist came down with covid-19.
    — The Economist, 9 July 2020
  • As the vase smashed into tiny pieces, the receptionist looked at me sternly and pointed to the door.
    — Sarah Grant, SPIN, 16 Sep. 2022
  • The receptionist thought Benge owned a dog or a cat named Seahorse.
    — Tamara Lush, orlandosentinel.com, 1 Dec. 2020
  • One of the men in his early 30s argues that the receptionist has to be friendly to do her job.
    — Eliana Dockterman, Time, 10 May 2018
  • Patti Thomas, 29, a receptionist at the USO, was in tears.
    — John Wilkens, sandiegouniontribune.com, 17 Jan. 2018
  • Per The Cut, Jane has also worked as a receptionist and a bank teller.
    — Adam England, Peoplemag, 19 May 2024
  • At the time, Crooks was a receptionist at a real estate firm in the building.
    — Jessica Estepa, USA TODAY, 20 Mar. 2018
  • Same with your team — all members from the receptionist on up.
    — Domenic Rom, Rolling Stone, 17 Sep. 2021
  • The receptionist watches her leave with a knowing look — there is more to come here.
    — Christina Grace Tucker, Vulture, 12 Dec. 2024
  • High and Dry Dear Dry: The receptionist isn't going to do anything about this.
    — Amy Dickinson, chicagotribune.com, 27 Feb. 2018
  • At the time, people were getting jobs as receptionists [at ad agencies] just to get their foot in the door.
    — James B. Cutchin, Los Angeles Times, 23 Aug. 2019
  • The man arrived at the Jewelers Row store when the receptionist was out.
    — Paige Fry and Rosemary Sobol, chicagotribune.com, 28 June 2018
  • Her core staff is made up of two other people — a nurse's aide and a receptionist.
    — Tim Evans, NPR, 4 Sep. 2024
  • After a few rings, the call was answered by a receptionist at the non-profit ACLJ.
    — Michael Biesecker, Fortune, 31 Jan. 2020
  • 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
  • Assi rushed over, but the hotel receptionist said no one with his name had checked in.
    — Olivia B. Waxman, TIME, 16 Oct. 2024
  • Mayu Kase, 22, who left her job as a hotel receptionist in Chiba, an area east of Tokyo, wants to open a cake shop.
    — The Economist, 22 Mar. 2018
  • There was only a receptionist and the doctor at the practice.
    — WSJ, 10 Jan. 2022
  • The clinic was so overbooked the receptionist told me you just had to show up and wait all day to be seen based on urgency.
    — Minda Honey, Longreads, 19 June 2018
  • Your station in life is much more similar to that of the cashier or the receptionist than to the person who signs their paychecks.
    — Amanda Mull, The Atlantic, 3 Aug. 2021
  • Within a couple of days, the receptionist was out sick.
    — Heather Vogell, ProPublica, 23 Nov. 2020
  • Anyone — from a nurse practitioner to a receptionist to a drug store clerk — can do the tests.
    — Ellen Gabler, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 11 Aug. 2021
  • And the receptionist at Mental Health Services knows it!
    — Christina Grace Tucker, Vulture, 19 Dec. 2024

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