How to Use gofer in a Sentence

gofer

noun

• Budenholzer credits his success to his first NBA job as Popovich’s gofer in the film room.
  — Jeff McDonald, San Antonio Express-News, 30 Oct. 2021
• Though her daughter, who just started playing the cello, will join Giddens in Ojai as a gofer.
  — Tim Greiving, Los Angeles Times, 8 June 2023
• When Grainge was seventeen, a talent agent in Soho hired him as a sandwich guy, the lowliest gofer.
  — John Seabrook, The New Yorker, 29 Jan. 2024
• Pitt plays Cliff Booth, Rick’s longtime stunt double, gofer and drinking buddy.
  — Samantha Miller, PEOPLE.com, 26 July 2019
• Nauta frequently served as a kind of gofer, fetching any items the president might need throughout the day and tidying up the room, the former staffer said.
  — Shane Harris, Washington Post, 13 Oct. 2022
• By the age of 18, Birkin had already worked on a couple of U.K.-based pictures as a tea boy/gofer, but could rise no further without a union membership or guild card.
  — Andrew Birkin, Variety, 17 Mar. 2022
• As Manny Torres in Babylon, Calva plays an ambitious gofer with dreams of being part of the movie-making world.
  — Benjamin Vanhoose, Peoplemag, 22 Dec. 2022
• With broad fix-it knowledge learned at his dad’s side and from years earning spare bucks as a gofer at construction sites, Mr. Mustaciuolo has hands-on technical knowledge.
  — Melanie Grayce West, WSJ, 23 Aug. 2018
• Walt Nauta, a cook and military valet in the Trump White House who is now employed as an all-purpose gofer for the former president and who ushered the group to the table before leaving them alone to talk.
  — Anchorage Daily News, 19 Dec. 2022
• Since the game takes place in a corporate hellscape, many of the missions and side missions involve going to a place, talking to that place’s leader, and convincing said leader to do something through a series of red-tape gofer quests.
  — EW.com, 22 Oct. 2019
• Thomas Middleditch, who needs someone to explain to him the dangers of overexposure, plays his usual bumbling character, a gofer for Steve who also narrates the tale.
  — Neil Genzlinger, New York Times, 15 June 2017
• When the film school rejections arrived, Spielberg had the previous summer begun his life as a fast-rising unpaid gofer at Universal Pictures.
  — Jay Mathews, Washington Post, 10 July 2019
• The group brought in others: a butcher here, a car-wash operator there, in addition to dozens of gofers, petty drug peddlers, and lookouts who kept an eye on the whereabouts of every resident, visitor, and passerby in the G.U.’s areas of control.
  — Alma Guillermoprieto, The New Yorker, 4 Mar. 2024
• McCarthy climbed the political ladder from volunteer gofer for a hometown congressman to U.S. House leadership by building relationships and compromising.
  — Los Angeles Times, 9 Jan. 2023