Examples of paper route in a Sentence
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My paper route was along this area.
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Christopher Keating,
Hartford Courant,
28 June 2026
Schussler got his career start early, running a neighborhood paper route and had more than a dozen jobs before turning 16.
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Andreas Wiseman,
Deadline,
4 June 2026
Almost everything that my sister disliked about the paper route was something that appealed to me.
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Peter Hessler,
New Yorker,
31 May 2026
Buffett used both of these religiously on his morning paper route.
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Sydney Lake,
Fortune,
14 Apr. 2026
Those back-in-my-day clichés about growing up in midcentury America — walking a mile to school, working a paper route, playing outside until the streetlights clicked on — paint a fairly accurate picture of a kind of American childhood that’s all but vanished.
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Stephen Johnson,
Big Think,
31 Mar. 2026
Nearly four decades before the death of Maria Florinda Ríos Pérez, a high school junior mistaken for a vandal was fatally shot while delivering The Indianapolis Star on his early morning paper route.
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Ryan Murphy,
IndyStar,
21 Nov. 2025
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Christopher Keating,
Hartford Courant,
28 June 2026
Schussler got his career start early, running a neighborhood paper route and had more than a dozen jobs before turning 16.
—
Andreas Wiseman,
Deadline,
4 June 2026
Almost everything that my sister disliked about the paper route was something that appealed to me.
—
Peter Hessler,
New Yorker,
31 May 2026
Buffett used both of these religiously on his morning paper route.
—
Sydney Lake,
Fortune,
14 Apr. 2026
Those back-in-my-day clichés about growing up in midcentury America — walking a mile to school, working a paper route, playing outside until the streetlights clicked on — paint a fairly accurate picture of a kind of American childhood that’s all but vanished.
—
Stephen Johnson,
Big Think,
31 Mar. 2026
Nearly four decades before the death of Maria Florinda Ríos Pérez, a high school junior mistaken for a vandal was fatally shot while delivering The Indianapolis Star on his early morning paper route.
—
Ryan Murphy,
IndyStar,
21 Nov. 2025
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“Paper route.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/paper%20route. Accessed 5 Jul. 2026.
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