How to Use paper route in a Sentence
paper route
noun-
My paper route was along this area.
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Christopher Keating,
Hartford Courant,
28 June 2026
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Buffett used both of these religiously on his morning paper route.
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Sydney Lake,
Fortune,
14 Apr. 2026
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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
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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
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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
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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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