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How to use postman in a sentence

15 example sentences · noun

Postman means someone who delivers the post (mail) to, and/or collects the post from, residential or commercial addresses, or from public mailboxes. Example: “The postman has been today, but my tickets have still not yet come.”

Examples of postman by meaning

nounSomeone who delivers the post (mail) to, and/or collects the post from, residential or commercial addresses, or from...

  • The headmistress entered and told the girls "I want you to do everything you can to help the war effort—you are old enough to do it now." The girls changed into women postmen, head waiters, soldiers, landgirls, butchers and carpenters.1971, J. P. Gallagher, Fred Karno: Master of Mirth and Tears, page 119
  • Postmen, binmen, dock workers, even barristers are now on strike.2022 September 7, Philip Haigh, “Comment: More strikes and poor morale”, in RAIL, number 965, page 3

More sentences with postman

  • The postman has been today, but my tickets have still not yet come.From the entry be
  • The old man growled his displeasure at the postman.From the entry growl
  • 'Our maid Doris canoodles with the postman when he comes round.' Agnes pulled a face.2014, Lizzie Lane, chapter 2, in Home for Christmas (Magna Large Print Books), Long Preston, North Yorkshire: Ebury Press, published 2015…. From the entry canoodle
  • The postman in question was parked on a single yellow line with parking-time restrictions.2007, Barrie Segal, The Parking Ticket Awards: Crazy Councils, Meter Madness and Traffic Warden Hell. From the entry single yellow line
  • All those people, using all that paper, printers, ink, postmen etc etc.2000 August 5, “Robin” (username), “Re: Letter from india”, in uk.politics.misc and other newsgroups, Usenet. From the entry smail
  • They were dog-eared by the hands of many a publisher's-reader and postman.1938, Xavier Herbert, chapter VIII, in Capricornia, page 123. From the entry reader
  • Gradually there began to be postmen and butcher-boys and milk-men and horsecars and newspaper boys and policemen.1915 July, Rebecca [Lane] Hooper Eastman, “The Purple Star”, in The Atlantic Monthly, volume CXVI, number 1, Washington, D.C.: The…. From the entry milk-man
  • As they were finishing breakfast came the postman with a letter from Derby.1913, D[avid] H[erbert] Lawrence, “chapter 8”, in Sons and Lovers, London: Duckworth & Co. […], →OCLC. From the entry screw up
  • I oughtn't open the door, not even for the postman.2018 August 7, Koren Zailckas, The Drama Teacher: A Novel, Crown, →ISBN, →OCLC. From the entry child toucher
  • Postman defined technopoly as ‘a state of culture’.2016, Marilyn Deegan, Kathryn Sutherland, Transferred Illusions: Digital Technology and the Forms of Print, Routledge, →ISBN, page 68. From the entry technopoly
  • Postmen have clearly been instructed to deliver the stuff no matter what the addressee or undressee is wearing.1989, Punch, volume 297, page 104. From the entry undressee
  • They were so central to people’s daily lives that friends and the postman would come to find you at your local kafana, not your home.2023 November 22, Camilla Bell-Davies, “‘People dance on tables’: welcome to Belgrade’s kafana pub culture”, in The Guardian, retrieved 22…. From the entry kafana
  • Jacob was helping himself to jam; the postman was talking to Rebecca in the kitchen; there was a bee humming at the yellow flower which nodded at the open window.1922 October 26, Virginia Woolf, chapter 2, in Jacob’s Room, Richmond, London: […] Leonard & Virginia Woolf at the Hogarth Press, →OCLC…. From the entry hum

Meaning of postman

  1. noun Someone who delivers the post (mail) to, and/or collects the post from, residential or commercial addresses, or from public mailboxes.
  2. noun One of the two most experienced barristers in the Court of Exchequer, who have precedence in motions, so called from the place where he sat, the other of the two being the tubman.

Full definition of postman

Questions about postman in a sentence

How do you use postman in a sentence?
Postman is used as a noun. For example: “The postman has been today, but my tickets have still not yet come.”
What is a short sentence with postman?
“Postman defined technopoly as ‘a state of culture’.”
What does postman mean?
Postman means someone who delivers the post (mail) to, and/or collects the post from, residential or commercial addresses, or from public mailboxes.

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Adapted from Wiktionary: postman (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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