How to Use receptionist in a Sentence

receptionist

noun

• And be sure to tell the receptionist to keep the change.
  — Cailey Rizzo, Travel + Leisure, 22 Oct. 2021
• The receptionist slid a piece of paper across the desk.
  — Seyward Darby, Longreads, 19 July 2024
• 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
• A few days ago the owner of the clinic where his wife works as a receptionist came down with covid-19.
  — The Economist, 9 July 2020
• As the vase smashed into tiny pieces, the receptionist looked at me sternly and pointed to the door.
  — Sarah Grant, SPIN, 16 Sep. 2022
• The receptionist thought Benge owned a dog or a cat named Seahorse.
  — Tamara Lush, orlandosentinel.com, 1 Dec. 2020
• One of the men in his early 30s argues that the receptionist has to be friendly to do her job.
  — Eliana Dockterman, Time, 10 May 2018
• 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
• At the time, people were getting jobs as receptionists [at ad agencies] just to get their foot in the door.
  — James B. Cutchin, Los Angeles Times, 23 Aug. 2019
• The man arrived at the Jewelers Row store when the receptionist was out.
  — Paige Fry and Rosemary Sobol, chicagotribune.com, 28 June 2018
• Her core staff is made up of two other people — a nurse's aide and a receptionist.
  — Tim Evans, NPR, 4 Sep. 2024
• After a few rings, the call was answered by a receptionist at the non-profit ACLJ.
  — Michael Biesecker, Fortune, 31 Jan. 2020
• 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
• Assi rushed over, but the hotel receptionist said no one with his name had checked in.
  — Olivia B. Waxman, TIME, 16 Oct. 2024
• There was only a receptionist and the doctor at the practice.
  — WSJ, 10 Jan. 2022
• The clinic was so overbooked the receptionist told me you just had to show up and wait all day to be seen based on urgency.
  — Minda Honey, Longreads, 19 June 2018
• 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
• Within a couple of days, the receptionist was out sick.
  — Heather Vogell, ProPublica, 23 Nov. 2020
• 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
• Msoili, a receptionist in the Paris suburb of Saint-Denis, usually takes a train and a bus to work each morning.
  — Washington Post, 10 Dec. 2019
• There’s a moment in that episode of simultaneous chaos that happens, with two cars crashing as a man attempts to drown the receptionist and Sister Megan finds herself in the line of fire.
  — Brande Victorian, The Hollywood Reporter, 15 Oct. 2024

Last Updated: 17 Dec 2024