CLERK in a Sentence

Learn CLERK from example sentences; some of them are from classic books. These examples are selected from a corpus with 300,000 sentences, including classic works and current mainstream media. Some sentences also link to their contexts.
207 example sentences for CLERK, such as:
1. He is a clerk for a judge.
2. She is the filing clerk of our company.
3. The clerk checked us in and gave us our key.
4. She applied to the manager for a job as clerk.
5. The chief clerk supervises the work of the department.
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Animal Farm by George Orwell
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 Meanings and Examples of CLERK
clerk
 n.  an employee who performs clerical work (e.g., keeps records or accounts)
 n.  a salesperson in a store
Classic Sentence: (190 in 13 pages)
1  Each of us said over and over that it was a "crazy idea"--we all talked at once to a baffled clerk and thought, or pretended to think, that we were being very funny.
The Great Gatsby By F. Scott Fitzgerald
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 7
2  The Church not being "thrown open," he was, as I have said, our clerk.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In Chapter IV
3  "He is not," returned the clerk.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In Chapter XX
4  With those words, the clerk opened a door, and ushered me into an inner chamber at the back.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In Chapter XX
5  "Go and wait outside, Mike," said the clerk.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In Chapter XX
6  I called to mind that the clerk had the same air of knowing something to everybody else's disadvantage, as his master had.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In Chapter XX
7  When I told the clerk that I would take a turn in the air while I waited, he advised me to go round the corner and I should come into Smithfield.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In Chapter XX
8  Without further interruption, we reached the front office, where we found the clerk and the man in velveteen with the fur cap.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In Chapter XX
9  "Here's Mike," said the clerk, getting down from his stool, and approaching Mr. Jaggers confidentially.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In Chapter XX
10  I then found that Wemmick was the clerk in the next room.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In Chapter XX
11  Another clerk was rung down from up stairs to take his place while he was out, and I accompanied him into the street, after shaking hands with my guardian.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In Chapter XX
12  It fell out as Wemmick had told me it would, that I had an early opportunity of comparing my guardian's establishment with that of his cashier and clerk.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In Chapter XXVI
13  The clerk and clergyman then appearing, we were ranged in order at those fatal rails.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In Chapter LV
14  Within a month, I had quitted England, and within two months I was clerk to Clarriker and Co.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In Chapter LVIII
15  We turned back, on my humbly insinuating that it might be useful to me hereafter; and he told the clerk that the carrier had instructions to call for it at noon.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 5. I AM SENT AWAY FROM HOME
Example Sentence: (17 in 2 pages)
1  She was offered a job as an accounts clerk with a travel firm.
2  The bank clerk peered at the customer through / from behind the grille.
3  The bank clerk peered at the customer through the grill.
4  The chief clerk supervises the work of the department.
5  In the first movie Tony Curtis ever made he played a grocery clerk.
6  He is a clerk for a judge.
7  The clerk checked us in and gave us our key.
8  She applied to the manager for a job as clerk.
9  A stupid medical clerk had slipped the wrong tab on his X-ray.
10  She is the filing clerk of our company.
11  The police suspected that the bank clerk was in league with the rubbers.
12  She was a bank clerk until the war, when she trained as a nurse.
13  He is vexed at my idle ways and waste of time: as if I need like a city clerk, six days a week and no holidays!
14  The sales clerk did not snap a reply at any angry customers.
15  It was standard practice for untrained clerks to advise in serious cases such as murder.