How to Use busboy in a Sentence

busboy

noun
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  • Romero was on duty and came into the room with a group of other busboys.
    — Russell Contreras, The Seattle Times, 2 June 2018
  • Later, as the two stood near the piano player in the bar, Spacey reached over and began to rub the busboy's thigh, the complaint states.
    — Eric Levenson, CNN, 17 July 2019
  • Matt worked there as a child, moving up to busboy, and worked on his uncle John's fishing boats.
    — Alaska Dispatch News, 13 Sep. 2017
  • Word had spread about a busboy job at the Lincoln Delicatessen.
    — Dick Schwartz, Star Tribune, 4 Sep. 2020
  • First came the kitchen workers and porters; then the waiters, runners, and busboys; and finally the bartenders.
    — Jon Michaud, The New Yorker, 24 Mar. 2020
  • Ego gives a busboy $500 for his shoes, and Punkie wonders when the music started playing so fast.
    — Alexis Pereira, Vulture, 10 Oct. 2021
  • In 1981, eight people were killed when a fire set by a busboy broke out at the Las Vegas Hilton hotel-casino.
    — cleveland.com, 10 Feb. 2018
  • The two-time Oscar winner allegedly plied the man, then 18, with drinks after the man’s shift as a busboy at the bar ended.
    — Matt Rocheleau, BostonGlobe.com, 19 June 2019
  • There was a hardworking busboy from Tampico named Ruben who expressed the desire to move up the ladder in the kitchen and learn how to bake.
    — Michael Taylor, ExpressNews.com, 12 June 2020
  • The two-time Oscar winner allegedly bought the then-18-year-old drinks after his shift as a busboy ended at the bar.
    — Matt Rocheleau, BostonGlobe.com, 8 July 2019
  • After the fire was over, the devastation was clear: Two young men, a busboy at a sushi restaurant and a man eating there on a date, were killed.
    — Jan Ransom, New York Times, 9 Sep. 2019
  • On at least one night a year, the District’s bartenders, chefs, busboys and maître d’s get to step away from their posts and party like everyone else.
    — Washington Post, 2 July 2019
  • The men who died were a guest and a busboy in a Japanese restaurant housed in the building on Second Avenue owned by Hrynenko.
    — Washington Post, 17 Jan. 2020
  • Spacey was accused of getting an 18-year-old man drunk and then groping him at a Nantucket restaurant and bar where the teen worked as a busboy.
    — baltimoresun.com, 17 July 2019
  • Spacey, 59, was accused of getting an 18-year-old man drunk and then groping him at a Nantucket restaurant and bar where the teen worked as a busboy.
    — Washington Post, 18 July 2019
  • But that goes out the window after Frankie scores some cocaine from a busboy during dinner.
    — The Washington Post, NOLA.com, 16 June 2017
  • He was cast as a busboy who disrupts the thieves’ plan by getting into an argument with a co-worker about weed.
    — Alan Sepinwall, Rolling Stone, 3 Sep. 2021
  • Rosas started at the restaurant as a busboy in the late 1970s and quickly learned to tend bar, reveling in the customers, the atmosphere and the regulars who came in to ask for him.
    — Los Angeles Times, 17 Mar. 2021
  • Porter, who has an extraordinary amount of footage to work with, restages the event via photographs of a dying Kennedy lying in the arms of a busboy, Juan Romero.
    — Sophie Gilbert, The Atlantic, 30 Apr. 2018
  • After tips, most front line workers pocket more than the busboys, dishwashers and line cooks in the back of the house, cementing inequity.
    — Tim Carman, Washington Post, 16 June 2018
  • He was accused of groping an 18-year-old busboy working at a bar on Nantucket.
    — Alex Marshall, BostonGlobe.com, 13 June 2022
  • Roughly 50 years after the death of Robert F. Kennedy, the busboy who held the dying senator detailed his last words in a Friday report.
    — Elizabeth Zwirz, Fox News, 1 June 2018
  • Spacey's accuser, who was an 18-year-old busboy at a Nantucket bar at the time of the alleged assault, filed the civil complaint on June 26.
    — Bonney Kapp and Jean Casarez, CNN, 8 July 2019
  • Instead, Romero got a job at the Ambassador Hotel as a dishwasher and later a busboy.
    — Russell Contreras, The Seattle Times, 2 June 2018
  • Spacey was also accused of groping a busboy at a restaurant in Nantucket in 2016.
    — NBC News, 18 Sep. 2019
  • After kissing the waitresses hello and shaking hands with the busboys and bar backs, Mr. Gargan tucked a bar towel in his belt and looked down the long counter at the clusters of customers.
    — Corey Kilgannon, New York Times, 10 Mar. 2017
  • There is another one, of course, a final one: lying on the kitchen floor of the Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles, a busboy cradling his head.
    — Tim Arango, New York Times, 5 June 2018
  • While evidence suggests that the lighting of the match or the act of screwing in the light bulb may have sparked the fire, the busboy was ultimately exonerated.
    — Bailey Allen, BostonGlobe.com, 28 Nov. 2022
  • Owner Bruno Garcia – who worked his way up in the industry, starting as a busboy – believes the tip system benefits everyone.
    — Ali Martin, The Christian Science Monitor, 20 Sep. 2023
  • Gutierrez learned English while working in restaurants, serving as a busboy, dishwasher and waiter, said daughter Rebecca Gutierrez.
    — Daniel Miller, Los Angeles Times, 31 Jan. 2024

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