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the postman comes at around nine every morning
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According to industry lore, Rudolph Hass, a postman and amateur horticulturalist in Southern California, stumbled on a new variety in the late 1920s while trying to propagate a variety called Rideout.
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Viridiana Hernández Fernández, Discover Magazine, 3 June 2024
That declaration, akin to the postman’s creed, is something any librarian would say.
—Diana Goetsch, Los Angeles Times, 17 Apr. 2024
All these months the sister had waited jealously for the postman and intercepted the letters, which had arrived diligently every week.
—Rachel Cusk, Harper's Magazine, 10 Sep. 2023
The city’s water and power supplies were inadequate and unsafe, and in the late 1980s, the community was served by only one postman and two elevators.
—Matt Benoit, Discover Magazine, 4 Oct. 2023
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Viridiana Hernández Fernández, Discover Magazine, 3 June 2024
That declaration, akin to the postman’s creed, is something any librarian would say.
—Diana Goetsch, Los Angeles Times, 17 Apr. 2024
All these months the sister had waited jealously for the postman and intercepted the letters, which had arrived diligently every week.
—Rachel Cusk, Harper's Magazine, 10 Sep. 2023
The city’s water and power supplies were inadequate and unsafe, and in the late 1980s, the community was served by only one postman and two elevators.
—Matt Benoit, Discover Magazine, 4 Oct. 2023
See all Example Sentences for postman
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“Postman.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/postman. Accessed 7 Jul. 2024.
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postman
noun
post·man
ˈpōs(t)-mən 
-ˌman
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