Sample Sentences forproprietor (editor-reviewed)
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The proprietor of the bookstore greeted each customer warmly and offered personalized recommendations based on their interests.proprietor = owner
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After 40 years of greeting guests in person, the proprietor of the restaurant is retiring.
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The merchant was the proprietor of a dry goods shop, and he always demanded that the sheep be sheared in his presence, so that he would not be cheated. (source)proprietor = owner of a business
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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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Thirteen miles southeast of Washington, John Lloyd, the proprietor of Surratt's tavern, went to bed.† (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 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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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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Joe Odom was to be the proprietor, president, and featured performer in a three-man jazz combo.† (source)
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She also spoke of finding another store to patronize, one where the proprietors were more concerned about the welfare of the community.† (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 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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Mr Tetley, the proprietor, peered over the Indian's shoulder.† (source)
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