How to Use postman in a Sentence

postman

noun
  • Then a few weeks go by and the postman brings the rods to my door.
    — Star Tribune, 30 July 2020
  • The small postman loses the vivid red streaks on its hind wings.
    — Ed Yong, The Atlantic, 18 Sep. 2017
  • Even the postman avoided the narrow lane that went there.
    — Andrea Bussell, Condé Nast Traveler, 7 Nov. 2022
  • Hass made only about $4k from his share of the crops, and worked as a postman till his death at age 60.
    — thehustle.co, 5 Apr. 2024
  • The notes were sent out with divers who made an 11-hour, back-and-forth journey to act as postmen.
    — Washington Post, 8 July 2018
  • The notes were sent out with divers who made an 11-hour, back-and-forth journey to act as postmen.
    — Fox News, 7 July 2018
  • The notes were sent out with divers who made an 11-hour, back-and-forth journey to act as postmen.
    — Fox News, 7 July 2018
  • The notes were sent out with divers who made an 11-hour, back-and-forth journey to act as postmen.
    — Fox News, 7 July 2018
  • The notes were sent out with divers who made an 11-hour, back-and-forth journey to act as postmen.
    — Fox News, 7 July 2018
  • The notes were sent out with divers who made an 11-hour, back-and-forth journey to act as postmen.
    — Fox News, 7 July 2018
  • The notes were sent out with divers who made an 11-hour, back-and-forth journey to act as postmen.
    — Fox News, 7 July 2018
  • The notes were sent out with divers who made an 11-hour, back-and-forth journey to act as postmen.
    — Fox News, 7 July 2018
  • None has come to mean more to me than the postman wearing a white pith helmet.
    — Elaine Ayala, ExpressNews.com, 19 Sep. 2020
  • The postman, the fireman, the policeman and clerk at the convenience store, the ladies at the dry cleaner.
    — Kyle Ringo, San Antonio Express-News, 27 May 2018
  • The postman, the fireman, the policeman and clerk at the convenience store, the ladies at the dry cleaner.
    — Kyle Ringo, Houston Chronicle, 27 May 2018
  • His father was a postman, and his mother worked in linen mills.
    — Neil Genzlinger, New York Times, 11 Oct. 2019
  • But putting Kit’s face on the envelope might be a bit of a giveaway, at least for postmen across the country.
    — Megan McCluskey, Time, 30 Apr. 2018
  • But like Wolf’s crows, the cydno longwing and postman prefer to mate with their own kind.
    — Quanta Magazine, 5 Aug. 2014
  • Not just the postman and the barber, but also the aspiring belly dancer, the night clipper, the cat looser, and all the rest.
    — Ian Bogost, The Atlantic, 20 June 2018
  • Mules were so profitable that everyone in Plano, even the barber and the postman, took to trading them.
    — Dallas News, 23 Mar. 2020
  • My postman is sometimes a postwoman, taking over the route for for a few days.
    — Beth Thames | Bethmthames@gmail.com, al, 26 Aug. 2020
  • Don, who grew up in Hartford, became a postman after serving three years in the Army.
    — M.a.c. Lynch, courant.com, 18 Feb. 2018
  • Lydia often pauses in the vestibule between the first and second door to inspect the packages that the postman has dropped.
    — Leslie Kendall Dye, Longreads, 10 Aug. 2020
  • The inventor’s improved design engaged the circuit when the postman opened the box.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 8 Aug. 2018
  • Dik LaPine has been a postman in Duluth, Minn., for 21 years and prides himself on rarely missing shifts.
    — John D. Stoll, WSJ, 16 Mar. 2020
  • The postal police said the stash in the Vicenza home of the 56-year-old postman was the biggest seizure of mail ever undertaken in Italy.
    — Washington Post, 29 Jan. 2018
  • Each day Julia watched for the postman to deliver the mail, his hand on the outboard motor steering him toward the dock.
    — Jennifer Gilmore, Harper’s Magazine , 13 Mar. 2023
  • His father, William, was a postman, and his mother, Mary (Maggin) Carson, worked in linen mills.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 10 Oct. 2019
  • But this Texas postman deserves a standing ovation from us all.
    — Southern Living, 8 Aug. 2017
  • That declaration, akin to the postman’s creed, is something any librarian would say.
    — Diana Goetsch, Los Angeles Times, 17 Apr. 2024

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