How to Use mailman in a Sentence

mailman

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  • The Gazette believed White to be the only mailman doing so in the state.
    — Tom Dillard, Arkansas Online, 14 Mar. 2021
  • The mailman comes through the Savoir office with a response from Camille.
    — Jessica Goldstein, Vulture, 23 Dec. 2021
  • That’s when the mailman pulled out a water bottle and poured the contents over the urine.
    — John Benson, cleveland, 6 Oct. 2021
  • The mailman knew more about his customers than the neighbors did.
    — Beth Thames | [email protected], al, 26 Aug. 2020
  • Firefighters said the mailman heard the smoke alarm inside the house then went around the back to check it out.
    — Amber Jayanth, Cincinnati.com, 17 Jan. 2018
  • The mailman and the next door neighbor know exactly how to snap him out of it.
    — Paul Hoynes, cleveland, 5 May 2022
  • The suspect pulled out a gun and opened fire — the bullet whizzing past the mailman, police said.
    — NBC News, 23 Apr. 2022
  • Neighbors say the pair had attacked the mailman over the summer.
    — Harriet Sokmensuer, PEOPLE.com, 5 Oct. 2021
  • The first official marathon happened at the 1896 Olympics and was won by a Greek mailman.
    — New York Times, 8 July 2020
  • In the video, Rudd plays a mailman who tries to hand Claud all of the mail from his bag and seems uncertain of how to do his job.
    — Christy Piña, The Hollywood Reporter, 17 July 2023
  • There were no charges of selling ballots brought against the mailman.
    — CBS News, 30 Sep. 2020
  • The ones on our list just might have your dog looking forward to the mailman's arrival.
    — Kalea Martin, Peoplemag, 26 Mar. 2023
  • The mailman is forced to climb the stairs because the kids have taken over the elevator.
    — New York Times, 18 Jan. 2022
  • Her young daughter clambered up and down the steps in flip-flops, and the mailman brought a handful of envelopes.
    — USA TODAY, 18 Aug. 2017
  • When the mailman sees that yesterday’s mail has been picked up that is a signal.
    — Carolyn Graybeal, Discover Magazine, 2 July 2014
  • The moment was inspired by one of Hanawalt’s grisly dreams, in which a jaguar ate her mailman’s face off.
    — The New Yorker, 15 Aug. 2021
  • The mailman quickly dropped his mailbag, fell to his knees, opened his arms, and exclaimed, ‘Son!
    — Elliot Ackerman, WIRED, 9 Feb. 2024
  • Anyone along the way can read or even change it: the folks in the post office, the mailman or just anyone who gets their hands on it in some way.
    — Lila Kee, Forbes, 24 Sep. 2021
  • Before the coronavirus, our mailman rarely had to climb out of his truck and trudge to our front door to drop off a package.
    — Peter Funt, WSJ, 9 June 2020
  • The injured mailman got back out of his truck and first ran for help to one home before having to go to two others.
    — Carol Robinson | [email protected], al, 24 July 2021
  • Two chances this week for fans to celebrate what would have been the 74th birthday of the singing mailman, who died in April from the coronavirus.
    — Staff Reports Star Tribune, Star Tribune, 8 Oct. 2020
  • Faye also chats with the mailman (John Way), whose letters are carried by mule.
    — Bill Goodykoontz, The Arizona Republic, 16 Aug. 2022
  • Where his dad was a mailman and his mother was a domestic helper for that house full of wealthy white people.
    — Dana Hunsinger Benbow, USA TODAY, 28 Feb. 2021
  • So, the genes that make a Shih Tzu liable to snap at the mailman’s ankles might not be the same ones making a Springer Spaniel more likely to play rough at the dog park.
    — Nathaniel Scharping, Discover Magazine, 18 Aug. 2023
  • His father sends him to a cold, remote village called Smeerenburg to be a mailman.
    — Carolyn Giardina, The Hollywood Reporter, 9 Dec. 2019
  • Lucy enjoys solitary naps and barking at the mailman through a glass window.
    — The Know Staff, The Know, 6 Apr. 2020
  • If you've been fooled by the age-old reputation dogs have for being not so nice to mailmen, UPS Dogs might change your mind.
    — Emma Austin, The Courier-Journal, 7 Jan. 2020
  • Our social friends sort of got used to it, as did the mailman, FedEx guy and even our favorite pizza delivery folks.
    — Annie Lane, oregonlive, 24 May 2020
  • Unable to fit the catalogs — there were about 20 a day — into the mailbox, the mailman let himself in and placed them on the coffee table.
    — Andy Schatschneider, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 1 Mar. 2018
  • Holbrook, a wildlife photographer and retired mailman, noticed that things were moving around in his Builth Wells, Wales, shed overnight.
    — Catherine Garcia, theweek, 11 Jan. 2024

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