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How to use postage in a sentence

21 example sentences · noun

Postage means the system of transporting letters, and parcels. Example: “The postage stamps on the letters from overseas were almost as interesting as the letters themselves.”

More sentences with postage

  • The postage stamps on the letters from overseas were almost as interesting as the letters themselves.From the entry postage stamp
  • The stampless letter eventually reached me, but I had to pay for its postage.From the entry stampless
  • We have just a postage stamp of a back garden.From the entry postage stamp
  • The package was resent, this time with the correct postage.From the entry resent
  • She is an avid collector of nineteenth-century postage stamps.From the entry collector
  • There is a belief that real postage stamps lead to a greater response.2013, Nigel Bradley, Marketing Research: Tools and Techniques. From the entry freepost
  • The petty cash book classifies payments as petrol and oils, postage, office, sundries and GST paid.2011, Robert Rodgers, Peter Lucas, Bookkeeping and Accounting Essentials, page 105. From the entry sundries
  • Postage for 2 CDs in a .15 cent polysleeve is not even a dollar.2001 May 17, Michael Sheehan, “Re: U2 BOOTLEGS! LOTS OF ELEVATION SHOWS!!”, in alt.music.u2 (Usenet). From the entry polysleeve
  • A person shall not utter a postage stamp knowing it to be forged.1914 September 12, Parliament of Australia, Crimes Act 1914 (No. 12, 1914; Compilation No. 159), volume 2, Canberra, A.C.T.: Office of…. From the entry utter
  • "What you don't know about chickens could be written on the back of a postage stamp.1905, “The Bird And The Bride”, in Poultry, volume 2, page 32. From the entry could be written on the back of a postage stamp
  • Buy a postage code online whenever you want.2021, “Portokoder”, in PostNord.se, archived from the original on 23 Jan 2022. From the entry postage code
  • A strikingly beautiful bird, the quetzal is the national emblem of Guatemala, appearing on its currency and postage.1999, Sy Barlowe, Learning about Rain Forest Animals, page 12. From the entry quetzal
  • A quick search behind you, above you and below you reveals nix, not even an old postage stamp.1995, Paul Vautin, Turn It Up!, Sydney: Pan Macmillan Australia, page 142. From the entry nooo
  • The move will represent a decrease of about 11 percent in the agencies’ nonlabor costs like travel, vehicles, equipment and postage, the governor’s office said.2009 October 7, Jeremy W. Peters, “Paterson Orders Additional Cuts”, in New York Times. From the entry nonlabor
  • Sizes XS, S, M, L, XL $35.00 (postage and handling incl.) HOT SHOOTIES - Our fun "Zydeco" print on electric blue, black or purple.1989 November 27, Harold Wallace Ross, Katharine Sergeant Angell White, editors, The New Yorker, Volume 65, Issues 40-45, volume 65…. From the entry shootie
  • Like all the other houses in the street, it was a Victorian terrace with a postage stamp of an overgrown garden between its front wall and the street.2016, Jane Killick, Mind Power: Perceivers #4. From the entry terrace
  • A worker at Tsat Tsz Mui post office admitted in Eastern Court yesterday to using old stamps and pocketing the postage payment meant for mailing a package.2009 April 1, Joyce Man, “Postal worker admits pocketing HK$22.50”, in South China Morning Post, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original…. From the entry Tsat Tsz Mui
  • Something classical that Annie couldn't immediately place, which was hardly surprising given that what Annie knew about symphonies could be written on the back of a postage stamp.2008, Sam Baker, Deadly Beautiful. From the entry could be written on the back of a postage stamp
  • They agree to repay the cost, together with the postage, of any article of consequence bought on their behalf,—cost to be stated in spesmiloj (half dollars).1919 February, “Office Notes”, in Amerika Esperantisto: American Esperantist, volume 23, number 6, West Newton, Mass.: American…. From the entry spesmilo
  • The subject of postage and the nonprepayment thereof has been discussed at such length in connection with export trade that it would appear almost presumptuous to add anything more.1916, Miscellaneous Series, numbers 36-45, page 40. From the entry nonprepayment
  • Every little item such as omnibus fares or postage or a couple of coppers spent on newspapers, would be entered, and the balance struck every evening before going to bed.1927-29, M.K. Gandhi, The Story of My Experiments with Truth, translated 1940 by Mahadev Desai, Part I, Chapter xvi. From the entry outstanding

Meaning of postage

  1. noun The system of transporting letters, and parcels.
  2. noun The charge for posting an item.
  3. noun The postage stamp, or similar token, affixed to an item of post as evidence of payment.

Full definition of postage

Questions about postage in a sentence

How do you use postage in a sentence?
Postage is used as a noun. For example: “The postage stamps on the letters from overseas were almost as interesting as the letters themselves.”
What is a short sentence with postage?
“Buy a postage code online whenever you want.”
What does postage mean?
Postage means the system of transporting letters, and parcels.

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Adapted from Wiktionary: postage (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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