Sample Sentences for
proprietor
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    The proprietor said "There has never been such a fish."  (source)
    proprietor = owner of the business
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    The proprietor leaned forward in his chair, the better to see the ragged dirty man.  (source)
    proprietor = owner of a business
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    Embarrassed, she turned her head to the handsome proprietor.†  (source)
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    Mr Tetley, the proprietor, peered over the Indian's shoulder.†  (source)
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    His father had been assured by the proprietors that his new settlement would be safe.†  (source)
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    Everyone referred to the baby by name, almost in a tone of proud proprietorship, but no one knew who Chun belonged to or where he or she had come from.†  (source)
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    In the dunes, close to where Turner and the corporals stood, men had already dug themselves holes from which they peeped out, proprietorial and smug.†  (source)
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    He has ventured a few times before to this part of Providence, just beyond Helaine's office and the Georgian brick homes of professors: fifteen or so square blocks of turn-of-the-century row houses and squat apartments, broken by clusters of sole proprietorships, jewelers, drugstores, and barbers, in buildings charging modest rent.†  (source)
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    He walked in while Samantha, the proprietor, was busy, asking for a number four.†  (source)
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    The proprietors weren't willing to pay the hefty fee for nude class.†  (source)
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    He had been a little disconcerted by the air of proprietorship she assumed over him.†  (source)
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    In spite of Petra's continued propensity to slip at any moment into what, in terms of sound, would be a deafening bellow, we all felt a proprietorial pride in her progress.†  (source)
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    Of the proprietor, so concerned that she might lose her valuable flier.†  (source)
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