How to Use teller in a Sentence

teller

noun
  • The bank teller turned over some cash, and the man left the bank.
    The Oregonian/oregonlive, oregonlive, 23 Mar. 2023
  • The man walked up to the bank teller and showed the note on the deposit slip.
    Kaylee Remington, cleveland, 11 Dec. 2021
  • Sign up to be a teller here: storytellersproject.com/tell.
    Roxanne De La Rosa, The Arizona Republic, 27 Jan. 2022
  • The teller complied and gave the man an undisclosed amount of money.
    Kaylee Remington, cleveland, 11 Dec. 2021
  • The teller handed over an undisclosed amount of cash and the robber was last seen walking out of the bank.
    Alex Riggins, San Diego Union-Tribune, 12 Jan. 2022
  • What is the connection between the teller and the subject?
    Addie Morfoot, Variety, 21 July 2023
  • My mom, who had been available to me seven days a week, had to take a job as a bank teller.
    Marc Myers, WSJ, 15 Nov. 2022
  • Instead, the victim went inside, wrote his plea for help on a note and handed it to the teller.
    al, 8 Sep. 2022
  • And a tale-teller was a servant hired to put people to sleep by talking a load of rubbish to them.
    Ali Smith, Harper’s Magazine , 25 May 2022
  • Vinson grabbed the employee and moved her to the door which accessed the teller counters.
    Carol Robinson | Crobinson@al.com, al, 29 Mar. 2022
  • Admiration spread over the face of the teller of this piece of Nastasha lore.
    Matt Thompson, SPIN, 5 Dec. 2023
  • The novel opens with Paloma about to lose her temper with a bank teller.
    Carole E. Barrowman, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 27 Nov. 2021
  • But has anyone checked on that poor bank teller who was just trying to do her job?
    Sydney Bucksbaum, EW.com, 9 Apr. 2022
  • The man walked into the bank and demanded cash from a teller, Foster said.
    Alex Riggins, San Diego Union-Tribune, 28 Dec. 2021
  • The teller then locked themselves in a back room and Bell fled the scene on foot without getting any money.
    Adam Sabes, Fox News, 1 Sep. 2023
  • The teller gave him an undisclosed amount of cash during the robbery, police said.
    Taylor Hartz, Hartford Courant, 22 June 2022
  • One of the customers was unhappy with this, and became irate and began yelling at the teller.
    cleveland, 16 June 2022
  • One of the voters who received these pre-election messages was Patil, the bank teller.
    Gerry Shih, Washington Post, 27 Sep. 2023
  • Throughout his life, John had a desperate need to be a truth teller.
    Jann S. Wenner, Rolling Stone, 2 Sep. 2022
  • His mother, Hilda, worked as a bank teller and drove church car pools.
    Michael Schulman, The New Yorker, 30 Jan. 2023
  • Her father was a bank teller and, in later life, a painter, and her mother was a teacher.
    Anna Russell, The New Yorker, 10 May 2022
  • Police said Bell threatened the guard’s life if the tellers didn’t open the security door.
    Brittny Mejia, Los Angeles Times, 14 Mar. 2024
  • After handing the teller the sticky note with a demand for money, left the scene with an undisclosed amount of cash.
    Adam Sabes, Fox News, 1 Sep. 2023
  • In 1974, Lawer started as a bank teller and worked her way up the company ranks.
    Anchorage Daily News, 28 Jan. 2022
  • The suspect demanded money from a teller, took it and walked off.
    San Diego Union-Tribune, 30 Dec. 2022
  • Myha’la Herrold as the truth-teller who’s got Sophie’s number.
    Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 14 Mar. 2022
  • Marsha still keeps a tattered photo of Morgan that was in her daughter’s teller window the day of the blast.
    Bonnie Miller Rubin, Good Housekeeping, 9 Oct. 2022
  • The man returned about five minutes later and went to the counter, then handed a note to the teller demanding money.
    Cliff Pinckard, cleveland, 1 Mar. 2022
  • In all messages and stories, there’s a teller and a receiver.
    WIRED, 28 Aug. 2022
  • Bring some cash to ask the visiting Zoltar fortune teller for some cheap advice.
    oregonlive, 8 Feb. 2022

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