How to Use proprietor in a Sentence

proprietor

noun

• She is the proprietor of the store.
• Now the sole proprietor of the restaurant, Humm is more than just a chef who moved from the line to the back office.
  — Joshua Glass, Vogue, 30 Aug. 2023
• But the proprietor, Chef Alexander, is nowhere in sight.
  — Ed Flanagan, NBC News, 20 Aug. 2022
• For La Fantaisie’s proprietors, Crenn was the clear choice.
  — Laura Neilson, Town & Country, 13 June 2023
• In time, the proprietors plan to add items like a brisket burrito and brisket melt sandwich to their menu.
  — Matt Wake | [e-mail], al, 28 Aug. 2023
• Here was a scene in which an off-duty actor slaps the proprietor with a lavender glove . . .
  — Jessi Jezewska Stevens, Harper’s Magazine , 28 Sep. 2022
• Dan Courtenay, the proprietor of Chelsea Guitars, is fine with that.
  — Alex Vadukul, New York Times, 25 Nov. 2022
• The kid did go out, but the proprietor later admitted him to complete his meal.
  — San Diego Union-Tribune, 27 Nov. 2022
• Richie, your former staff and a new proprietor are taking very good care of your legacy.
  — Sheryl Julian, BostonGlobe.com, 12 May 2022
• For the second time since 2021, the proprietor of a Fairhope horse farm where you can overnight in an Airstream has been named Airbnb’s most hospitable host in Alabama.
  — Lawrence Specker | [e-mail], al, 27 July 2023
• At the center of the narrative, John Schiappa reveals the scarred soul of Nick Laine, proprietor of the on-the-skids boardinghouse.
  — Celia Wren, Washington Post, 15 Dec. 2023
• Moshe’s wife, Chona, the proprietor of the novel’s eponymous store, has a chronic limp from childhood polio.
  — Hawa Allan, BostonGlobe.com, 10 Aug. 2023
• Certain pre-planned activities will have money built in for the guides or if it is run by a proprietor.
  — Judy Koutsky, Forbes, 31 Dec. 2022
• The older white proprietor of the town’s violin shop agreed to rent her one, as her family couldn’t afford to buy.
  — Doreen St. Félix, The New Yorker, 7 Aug. 2023
• The only major injury was proprietor J.M. Wilkins, who ran to safety with his beard and hair singed, and minor injuries to his hands and lungs.
  — Peter Hartlaub, San Francisco Chronicle, 29 Apr. 2023
• When the villa, complete with a helipad, a pool and an eight-acre park, was sold in 2015, everyone in Portofino soon knew who the new proprietor was.
  — New York Times, 1 June 2022
• In France, tips were placed directly into a wooden box called le tronc, controlled by the proprietor.
  — Zach Helfand, The New Yorker, 25 Dec. 2023
• Roy Murrell, proprietor of the garage, was arrested on a charge of transporting liquor.
  — Eula Calahan, Arkansas Online, 18 July 2023
• Jenkins is seeking to reveal the true identity of the proprietor, who goes by the pseudonym Enty Lawyer.
  — Gene Maddaus, Variety, 9 Jan. 2023
• Her father was a shoe salesman and union activist and later the proprietor of a shoe store, and her mother was a secretary and a homemaker.
  — Emily Langer, Washington Post, 7 Sep. 2023
• The proprietor, who gave his family name, Guo, said that some businesses like his had failed during the pandemic but that the survivors were back.
  — Keith Bradsher, New York Times, 17 Apr. 2023
• The rest of the White House building will serve as an events-only venue, according to owner and proprietor Allison Meinhardt.
  — Jessica Rodriguez, Journal Sentinel, 22 Jan. 2024
• Kawai is the proprietor of a new kind of co-working space, designed for procrastinators.
  — Ann Tashi Slater, The New Yorker, 26 Dec. 2022
• Beneath one of the banners, Kuhn chatted with Tim Klitch and the proprietor of a roll-out pickleball-court-surface business.
  — Sarah Larson, The New Yorker, 18 July 2022
• The proprietor of a single location is usually on-site all day.
  — Carl Gould, Forbes, 30 June 2022
• The proprietors may have smartphones and Apple watches now, but there are still rug vendors and spice shops lining the narrow alleyways.
  — Lilit Marcus, CNN, 18 Apr. 2023
• There’s a pub, where the same people show up regularly to guzzle and grouse, and a meat pie shop, whose proprietor, Fran, has an unkind word for just about everyone.
  — Chris Vognar, Rolling Stone, 8 Oct. 2023
• Inn at Mattei’s Tavern even has a Meet the Maker program, where guests can tour vineyards and taste wine with the vineyards’ proprietors and winemakers.
  — Maya Kachroo-Levine, Travel + Leisure, 22 Aug. 2023
• Bob Nance, the tire shop’s proprietor, had a small menagerie—a Siberian tiger, parrots, monkeys—that customers could gawk at while their new Michelins were being mounted.
  — Longreads, 8 Mar. 2023
• The proprietor showed police a picture of the suspect vehicle, including the license plate.
  — Thomas Jewell, cleveland, 15 July 2022

Last Updated: 3 May 2024