Definition: 1. An employee who performs clerical work (e.g., keeps records or accounts. 2. A salesperson in a store. 3. Work as a clerk, as in the legal business.
Use 'clerk' in a sentence:
1. Joining the firm as a clerk, he got rapid promotion.
2. Now Thomas was working as a clerk in a shop that sold leather goods.
3. A liquor store clerk reads a magazine at the counter.
4. The clerk at the counter gave me too little change.
5. She asked the clerk to get a pair of socks for the boy.
6. What we need here is a clerk who is careful and considerate.
7. The clerk asked me to sign the docket.
8. It was clear that the clerk had gone beyond his duty in doing so without authority.
9. The clerk quickly brought the things to her.
10. A bank clerk wants to use this specialist vocabulary and technical terms of finance.
11. She was offered a job as an accounts clerk with a travel firm.
12. Gene clerked at the auction.
13. The clerk regarded him with benevolent amusement.
14. The clerk stared at him and the rusty black bonnet a moment, and then laughed.
15. "True," said the clerk, shrugging his shoulders; "and yet you are the better off."
16. A clerk gave me the right size skis.
17. A sharp-eyed shop clerk spotted the fake.
18. He's nothing better than a jumped-up bank clerk!
19. The Clerk scratched his nose with his pen.
20. Clerks bundled papers into files willy-nilly.
21. 'I've come to reclaim my property,' she announced to the desk clerk.
22. The clerks are courteous.
23. A clerk simply verifies that the payment and invoice amount match.
24. It was not very long before he became the best clerk in the store.
25. A bank clerk, for example, wants to use this specialist vocabulary and technical terms of finance.
26. He clerked for the chief justice of the Supreme Court.
27. The petty clerk was afraid of offending his boss.
28. Hurry up, the clerk of the course is calling the roll.
29. It was strange, how invisible a clerk could feel.
30. Where was the clerk going to put the money?
31. The clerk was quite exhausted and seated himself on a bank.
32. The clerk saw a kind face wrinkled in an apologetic smile.
33. He was promoted from a clerk to a manager.
34. When the postal clerk delivers your order, check the carton before signing for it.
35. The two schoolboys, the proprietors now of the transformed clerk, carried him into an elegant room.
36. And, lest we forget, Einstein wrote his most influential papers while working as a clerk.
37. He started his career as a humble clerk.
38. You may strike lucky and find a sympathetic and helpful clerk, but, there again, you might not.
39. The clerk put her hands on her skirt right away.
40. The manager's rebukes in loud voice and stern expression have made the clerks gathered in the out office start with alarm.
41. He serves as a clerk in a bank.
42. Clerks transcribe everything that is said in court.
43. The clerk was given a promotion and an increase in salary.
44. A clerk had slipped the wrong tab on Tony's X-ray.
45. Betty started as a shipping clerk at the clothes factory.
46. A bank clerk rushed into the street.
47. I like to deal with a polite clerk.
48. She was offered a job as a clerk with a travel agency.
49. There was a comfortable-looking clerk on duty, tapping away on a manual typewriter.
50. Never once did this clerk get annoyed or roll his eyes.
51. In the first movie Tony Curtis ever made he played a grocery clerk.
52. She is the town clerk and a certified public accountant and notary public.
53. It was standard practice for untrained clerks to advise in serious cases such as murder.
