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How to use chauffeur in a sentence

27 example sentences · noun, verb

Chauffeur means a person employed to drive a private motor car or a hired car of executive or luxury class (like a limousine). Example: “A uniformed chauffeur collected us for the party.”

Examples of chauffeur by meaning

nounA person employed to drive a private motor car or a hired car of executive or luxury class (like a limousine).

  • He fell into a reverie, a most dangerous state of mind for a chauffeur, since a fall into reverie on the part of a driver may mean a fall into a ravine on the part of the machine.1913, Robert Barr, chapter 3, in Lord Stranleigh Abroad

verbTo be, or act as, a chauffeur (driver of a motor car).

  • He did gardening for us, and chauffeuring for my father.1951, John Wyndham, The Day of the Triffids, Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, published 1954, page 75

More sentences with chauffeur

  • A uniformed chauffeur collected us for the party.From the entry uniformed
  • Weary of chauffeuring, mom allowed us to drive short distances unlicensed.2016 January 31, Dee Dee Murphy, “Where does time go?”, in Times-Georgian, Carrollton, Ga., →ISSN, →OCLC, page A4, column 2. From the entry teen-sit
  • Somebody's chauffeur probably got a scratch on the El Dorado, huh?"2013, William G. Tapply, The Dutch Blue Error. From the entry tug one's forelock
  • Blasted off to the course chauffeured by Jouni and started praccying at 8am.2008, Nutters with Putters, page 130. From the entry praccy
  • De chauffeur verveelt zich is a real Janus-novel, looking into two directions.2004, Ad Zuiderent, “The Historical Pole of the Earth: Time in the Novels of Gerrit Krol”, in Thomas F[rederic] Shannon, Johan P[ieter]…. From the entry Janus
  • Take away those chauffeurs, those gasoline coupons, those platoons of pencil-skirted, lozenge-spectacled assistants.1999 January 15, “Toronto hostels filled with families and young people”, in The Edmonton Journal, page F9. From the entry pencil-skirted
  • The Nelson family chauffeur, Ed, told me that Steven was missing.1964, Tom Pyle, Beth Day Romulo, Pocantico: Fifty Years on the Rockefeller Domain, page 168. From the entry lacing
  • Cooks, houseboys, and amahs are usually Chinese, while gardeners and chauffeurs are Malay.1949, Office of International Trade with Bureau of Foreign and Domestic Commerce, International Reference Service, volume 6, Washington…. From the entry houseboy
  • A maid stood at the door, ready to receive him and his suit-case from the chauffeur.1923, Warwick Deeping, “John Stretton”, in The Secret Sanctuary (The Scherz Phoenix Books), Berne: Alfred Scherz Publishers, published…. From the entry suit-case
  • I chauffeured them between the airport, hotel and the plant.1995, Edward C. Welter, GM Means Good Money, page 105. From the entry noon balloon
  • Our chauffeur Chu had waited an extra day for us.1981, Jean Ewen, chapter 12, in China Nurse 1932-1939, McClelland and Stewart, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 159. From the entry Wenchou
  • A negress acting as a chauffeur is still more extraordinary.1954, Ian Fleming, Live and Let Die, London: Pan Books, published 1957, page 6. From the entry negress
  • A syce (chauffeur) is optional in each individual case.1949, Office of International Trade with Bureau of Foreign and Domestic Commerce, International Reference Service, volume 6, Washington…. From the entry houseboy
  • My car and chauffeur awaits me lord in the alley.1937 October, “Brant House” [pseudonym; G. T. Fleming-Roberts], “‘No End by Death’”, in Secret Agent “X” in The Assassins’ League…. From the entry pip-pip
  • "Hope I'm not talking out of school but I do feel you acted unwisely by employing a one-armed chauffeur."1936, F.J. Thwaites, chapter XIV, in The Redemption, Sydney: H. John Edwards, published 1940, page 152. From the entry one-armed
  • I found afterwards that he was the chauffeur, who filled the gaps left by a succession of fugitive butlers.1912, Arthur Conan Doyle, The Lost World […], London; New York, N.Y.: Hodder and Stoughton, →OCLC. From the entry fugitive
  • That is why chauffeurs were invented.1997 August, Beverly West, Kim Doi, “A Chauffeur, Cab Fare, or a Designated Driver”, in Cocktail Nation: Cosmic Cocktails, Space-Age…. From the entry saturnalian
  • Saturday afternoon, when the street mob was at its heighth, a chauffeur leaned against the corner of Ivey’s, fast asleep . . .1935 March 25, John W. Harden, “Snapshots”, in The Charlotte News, Charlotte, N.C., page five. From the entry bosswoman
  • As we crossed Blackwell's Island a limousine passed us, driven by a white chauffeur, in which sat three modish negroes, two bucks and a girl.1925, F[rancis] Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby, New York, N.Y.: Charles Scribner’s Sons, →OCLC, page 83. From the entry modish
  • The chauffeur in blues had rested the slow-moving red flasher atop the roof, no doubt thinking this would ward off any and all disrespectors of New York’s finest.1995, Thomas Adcock, Devil’s Heaven: A Neil Hockaday Mystery, New York, N.Y.: Pocket Books, →ISBN, page 301. From the entry disrespector
  • At one corner of the room three enginemen were lost in serious discussion; in other corners, mécaniciens and chauffeurs were quietly talking, playing draughts, reading or eating.1961 March, 'Balmore', “Driving and firing modern French steam locomotives”, in Trains Illustrated, page 147. From the entry engineman
  • She owned a bright green square Buick and a black chauffeur, both kept in an unhealthy state of tidiness, but today they were nowhere to be seen.1960 July 11, Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird, Philadelphia, Pa.; New York, N.Y.: J[oshua] B[allinger] Lippincott Company, →OCLC. From the entry in state
  • Meanwhile the chauffeur who had driven them there—a subordinate member of the band—had garaged his car and was loitering about the drive in the expectation of further instructions.1934, Ernest Bramah, The Bravo of London. From the entry garage
  • Though it was not far to Jamiltepec, once outside the village, the chauffeur and his little attendant lad began to get frightened, and to go frog-like with fear.1926, D. H. Lawrence, chapter 19, in The Plumed Serpent, New York: Vintage, published 1955, page 316. From the entry froglike
  • Thank you to a special Carer, Thank you for being my nurse, My housemaid, and my cook, My batman and my chauffeur, And my eyes when I forget to look!2012, Jeffery Hayton, Just One More Time, →ISBN, page 78. From the entry batman

Meaning of chauffeur

  1. noun A person employed to drive a private motor car or a hired car of executive or luxury class (like a limousine).
  2. noun The driver of a fire truck.
  3. verb To be, or act as, a chauffeur (driver of a motor car).

Full definition of chauffeur

Questions about chauffeur in a sentence

How do you use chauffeur in a sentence?
Chauffeur is used as a noun and verb. For example: “A uniformed chauffeur collected us for the party.”
What is a short sentence with chauffeur?
“That is why chauffeurs were invented.”
What does chauffeur mean?
Chauffeur means a person employed to drive a private motor car or a hired car of executive or luxury class (like a limousine).

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Adapted from Wiktionary: chauffeur (page history and authors) and the entries each sentence comes from. Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws chose the sentences, left out offensive ones and quotations older than 1900, and marked the word in each. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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