Example sentences for: clerk

How can you use “clerk” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • When he reports for a drudge job as a file clerk, the office is between the seventh and eighth floors of a Manhattan skyscraper--it's the seven-and-a-halfth floor, where people walk stooped and make feeble jokes about the "low overhead."

  • In India, for example, it is a great insult to offer your left hand in any way, even handing a clerk your money to pay for something.

  • A clerk in the beetle department of a Tokyo department store (who has a pair of okuwagata stag beetles captured from the wild "on sale" right now for just $43,000) told the paper that the bugs "might actually like it in a machine because they seem to be comfortable in dark, narrow spaces."

  • The clerk, initially seen upside down, hints at a world turned on its head.

  • But the portrayal of the transaction in question is interesting: The clerk is Asian, but the customer is white.)


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