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How to use mail in a sentence

40 example sentences · noun, verb

Mail means a bag or wallet. Example: “Don't forget to pick up the mail on your way.”

Examples of mail by meaning

nounThe (physical) material conveyed by the postal service.

  • Don't forget to pick up the mail on your way.
  • The transfer by tender of some 1,300 mail bags was effected smartly, and the "Ocean Mails Special" train was ready at 9.19 a.m.1944 July and August, Charles E. Lee, “The "City of Truro"”, in Railway Magazine, page 202

nounThe letters, parcels, etc. delivered to a particular address or person.

  • It should be in your mail today, unless the post office lost it!

nounA stagecoach, train or ship that delivers such post.

  • All trains stop at all stations, with the exception of a few "local" stations near Mombasa and an odd flag stop or two usually missed by the mails.1950 April, Timothy H. Cobb, “The Kenya-Uganda Railway”, in Railway Magazine, page 263
  • Where's the mail?" Gimbert knew the mail train was due, and he didn't want to endanger another train with his burning bomb wagon.2022 January 12, Benedict le Vay, “The heroes of Soham...”, in RAIL, number 948, page 42

nounThe postal service or system in general.

  • He decided to send his declaration by mail.

nounElectronic mail, e-mail: a computer network–based service for sending, storing, and forwarding electronic messages.

  • Yahoo Mail has been providing mail service since 1997.

nounAn email message.

  • Please look through those mails and confirm whether you received the one about scheduling.

verbTo send by electronic mail.

  • Please mail me the spreadsheet by the end of the day.
  • There has been a crackdown on non-ARPA use of a local ARPA gateway, so I am reluctant to attempt to mail the file to ARPA sites.1983, Donn Seeley, “Source for 'Grab'”, in net.unix-wizards (Usenet)
  • If you mail an attachment from one mail client then it does not matter if the receiver uses a different mail client.2003, Chrissy, “Re: Send mail with attachment”, in microsoft.public.excel.programming (Usenet)

verbTo contact (a person) by electronic mail.

  • I need to mail my tutor about the deadline.
  • Then, it saw it open my e-mail package and start to mail my friends.2000, Carlton Alton Deltree, “Whoever did this sucks...”, in alt.comp.virus (Usenet)
  • She was so excited by it, she sent all those emails, you remember I told you about it -' 'Yes, she mailed me from there too.'2002, Jessica Mann, The voice from the grave, page 189

More sentences with mail

  • They use airplanes to deliver mail and supplies to the far northern villages.From the entry airplane
  • I'll be glad to forward your mail to you while you're gone.From the entry forward
  • The official notice will be sent via both email and snail mail owing to legal requirements.From the entry snail mail
  • My junk mail goes straight into the round file the moment it arrives.From the entry round file
  • He promised to mail me a refund, but it was just a rip-off.From the entry rip-off
  • He's very neighborly: he always collects my mail when I'm away on vacation.From the entry neighborly
  • Mail is presorted by postcode prior to transfer into the postal delivery system.From the entry presort
  • The e-mail notifier displays a small icon in the notification area when mail is received.From the entry notifier
  • I sent the memo to the accounting department via interdepartmental mail.From the entry interdepartmental
  • Every morning, she went through her mail over a cup of coffee.From the entry go through
  • I really need to despam my mailbox: it's full of junk mail.From the entry despam
  • I mentioned that I was feeling sad, so she mailed me a box of chocolates. She gets me.From the entry get
  • Would you pick up my mail while I'm away.From the entry away
  • He delivers the mail everywhere on this street.From the entry everywhere
  • He runs an email filter to catch the junk mail.From the entry filter
  • The mail is delayed by a heavy fall of snow.From the entry delay
  • The dog’s been chasing the mail carrier again.From the entry 's
  • The mail carrier was phobic of dogs.From the entry phobic
  • All incoming mail was routed through a single office.From the entry route
  • I came home to a mailbox stuffed with snail mail.From the entry snail mail
  • Most undelivered mail has the wrong address.From the entry undelivered
  • The dead letter office keeps undeliverable mail.From the entry undeliverable
  • Most junk mail requires only a cursory glance.From the entry cursory
  • Like any other large American corporation, we have mail stops on every floor or each building, for inter- and intra-office mail.From the entry mail stop
  • A wad of junk mail was pushed through the letterbox in the front door and dropped onto the mat.From the entry letterbox
  • The college application is in the mail. Fingers crossed!From the entry fingers crossed

Meaning of mail

  1. noun A bag or wallet.
  2. noun A bag containing letters to be delivered by post.
  3. noun The (physical) material conveyed by the postal service.

Full definition of mail

Questions about mail in a sentence

How do you use mail in a sentence?
Mail is used as a noun and verb. For example: “Don't forget to pick up the mail on your way.”
What is a short sentence with mail?
“Most undelivered mail has the wrong address.”
What does mail mean?
Mail means a bag or wallet.

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: mail (page history and authors) and the entries each sentence comes from. Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws chose the sentences, left out offensive ones and quotations older than 1900, and marked the word in each. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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