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How to use portress in a sentence

Looking for sentences and phrases with the word portress? Here are some examples.

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My first job ever was working in the convent as the portress, which is kind of like a receptionist for a convent.
She discharged the offices of portress and infirmarian with great generosity and fidelity.
The auxiliary staff were not enough to clear up the rooms, so everyone gave a hand, from the portress to the secretary.
Here, work is never lacking: reception, telephone, schedules for portress duty in the morning or evening and some weekends, sacristy work and preparing the chapel for mass.
Examples from Classical Literature
And the portress looked as though she were resolved to obey her master's orders.
The portress at the house in the Rue Montmartre is the most obliging woman in the world.
All was made clean and tidy when the portress came, but we were not to get off so easily!
It had a rectoress to care for and govern it, and a portress.
The girls at Santa Isabela have a mother superior and a portress.
The portress and her keys returned again, and parleyed a moment.
The sisters are asleep, except the portress, who will be far away.
The portress was expecting him, and he was admitted without a word.
I ran, rang, and being recognized by the portress, was at once admitted.
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