front desk
Americannoun
Example Sentences
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Lighting that doesn’t require an engineering degree or call to the front desk.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 15, 2026
"I think those of us who use the NHS, the lived experience is one of disconnected, fragmented systems, explaining who you are to a different person on every ward, at the front desk," he said.
From BBC • Apr. 14, 2026
The author works as a freelance production assistant and at the front desk of a local yoga studio.
From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 23, 2026
Guests at the lodge can organize snowshoe and cross-country ski excursions through the front desk, which will tailor your trip to your experience level—even serious backcountry skiers will find an itinerary to their liking.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 23, 2026
At the hotel’s front desk a clerk told her she would now be escorted up to “Mr. and Mrs. Cody’s suite.”
From "The Devil in the White City" by Erik Larson
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