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’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
  • Per The Cut, Jane has also worked as a receptionist and a bank teller.
    — Adam England, Peoplemag, 19 May 2024
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • For example, a receptionist working from the home will be able to greet visitors to an office through a screen placed on the main desk.
    — Scott Nover, Quartz, 2 June 2021
  • 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
  • Growing up in Los Angeles, Kim’s dad was a doctor with a small practice, and his mom, Sheena, did everything else as both back office wizard and front desk receptionist.
    — Allie Garfinkle, Fortune, 10 May 2024

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