Ushers

The new name ushers in an online database, set to go live in a few months, which will include digital access to more than 4,000 photographs that date back to the late 19th century. ❋ Unknown (2010)

The going rate this year to bribe the ushers is $20 a head. ❋ Unknown (1999)

For the fourth time already, one of Bao-bao's five "co-best buddies," as he calls his ushers, taps into the microphone and booms, "Ladies and gentlemen, can I have your attention?" ❋ Tan, Amy (1991)

Also, the ratio of bridesmaids to ushers is now askew, but she will persevere.) ❋ Greenmother (2009)

Among the ushers were a city councilman, a senator, and assorted scions. ❋ Jonathan Kellerman (1987)

They are taken to and fro to these things in the care of persons one would call ushers unhesitatingly were it not that they also pretended to teach. ❋ Unknown (1906)

A couple of hours later, a phone call ushers him - according to Castro - into a room where the players are having their pregame meal. ❋ By KEYVAN ANTONIO HEYDARI (2011)

Even then it was just a token to help "ushers" and/or doormen keep track of the number of folk. ❋ Unknown (2008)

When you say "ushers" I picture pimply teenagers in bad uniforms. ❋ Rogers (2006)

Upon intering into the temple we were surrounded by masses of people but the temple "ushers" spoke enough English to tell us what to do. ❋ Maya Chalee (2005)

We’ll start with my favorite, the one that Joan Jett’s song of the same name ushers in every Friday afternoon on XM’s NHL Home Ice. ❋ Rob Higgins (2010)

Four "ushers" moved silently down the side-aisle, halted at the end of the sixth row from the rear, laid hands upon an angry and wriggling little man who screamed to high heaven that he hadn't done nothing, and dropped him out of the open window, which was just five feet above the ground. ❋ Henry Sydnor Harrison (1905)

England and America known as "ushers," to help the "master," and the provision of small recitation rooms, off the main large schoolroom, to which the usher could take his class to hear recitations. ❋ Ellwood Patterson Cubberley (1904)