Examples of coachman in a Sentence
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My paternal grandmother’s side of the family has been in Chapel Hill since the 1700s, and her ancestor, November Caldwell, was the coachman and footman to the first president of UNC Chapel Hill.
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Ruhama Wolle, Glamour, 5 Sep. 2024
Emma West, the driver of the replica carriage, will also be one of the only female coachmen participating in King Charles and Queen Camilla's coronation parade.
—Alyson Krueger, Peoplemag, 5 May 2023
As a youth, Davis would have apprenticed under Nathan Harris, an enslaved coachman famous throughout Baltimore for his ability to drive a four-horse carriage.
—Christina Tkacik, baltimoresun.com, 22 Oct. 2020
Tony, a coachman, and Cuba, a maid, were enslaved by Henry Vassall and Penelope Royall Vassall, whose wealth came from sugar plantations in Jamaica and Antigua.
—Anemona Hartocollis, New York Times, 12 Sep. 2022
No other Pinocchio film recognizes just how grotesquely evil the coachman is.
—Barry Levitt, Vulture, 7 Dec. 2022
Then there are the carriage houses, early garages that housed carriages on the ground floor and the coachman in quarters above.
—René A. Guzman, San Antonio Express-News, 16 Feb. 2022
Noah Penn, who died in 1888, came to Dallas as a coachman, later helped found El Bethel Baptist Church and is also buried in the African American section.
—Maggie Kelleher, Dallas News, 26 Apr. 2021
Frances, now the mother of four, had a cook, a gardener, a coachman, and housemaids.
—Dorothy Wickenden, The New Yorker, 18 Jan. 2021
Ruhama Wolle, Glamour, 5 Sep. 2024
Emma West, the driver of the replica carriage, will also be one of the only female coachmen participating in King Charles and Queen Camilla's coronation parade.
—Alyson Krueger, Peoplemag, 5 May 2023
As a youth, Davis would have apprenticed under Nathan Harris, an enslaved coachman famous throughout Baltimore for his ability to drive a four-horse carriage.
—Christina Tkacik, baltimoresun.com, 22 Oct. 2020
Tony, a coachman, and Cuba, a maid, were enslaved by Henry Vassall and Penelope Royall Vassall, whose wealth came from sugar plantations in Jamaica and Antigua.
—Anemona Hartocollis, New York Times, 12 Sep. 2022
No other Pinocchio film recognizes just how grotesquely evil the coachman is.
—Barry Levitt, Vulture, 7 Dec. 2022
Then there are the carriage houses, early garages that housed carriages on the ground floor and the coachman in quarters above.
—René A. Guzman, San Antonio Express-News, 16 Feb. 2022
Noah Penn, who died in 1888, came to Dallas as a coachman, later helped found El Bethel Baptist Church and is also buried in the African American section.
—Maggie Kelleher, Dallas News, 26 Apr. 2021
Frances, now the mother of four, had a cook, a gardener, a coachman, and housemaids.
—Dorothy Wickenden, The New Yorker, 18 Jan. 2021
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“Coachman.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/coachman. Accessed 31 Oct. 2024.
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coachman
noun
coach·man
ˈkōch-mən 
: a person whose business is driving a coach or carriage
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