Example Sentences

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Valets in T-shirts checking their IGs or playing “Hungry Shark” on their phones.

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 11, 2023

Valets have historically been tasked with all sorts of things, including picking out the president’s clothing, helping manage the president’s public image, and generally being a close confidant.

From Slate • Jul. 6, 2023

Valets and a designated “floor butler” will attend to their needs, and the room has been stocked with Diet Coke and cherry vanilla ice cream.

From Washington Post • Feb. 24, 2020

Valets, for example, could be automatically prevented from accessing personal information in a navigation system or driving faster than, say, 30 miles per hour.

From New York Times • Apr. 6, 2017

Next came the Ambassador’s122 Master of the Horse, follow’d by six led Horses, two Trumpets, with the Lackeys, Valets de Chambre, Pages, and Gentlemen belonging to the Ambassador, all on Horseback.

From The Memoirs of Charles-Lewis, Baron de Pollnitz, Volume II Being the Observations He Made in His Late Travels From Prussia thro' Germany, Italy, France, Flanders, Holland, England, &C. in Letters to His Friend. Discovering Not Only the Present State of the Chief Cities and Towns; but the Characters of the Principal Persons at the Several Courts. by P?llnitz, Karl Ludwig von