How to Use mailbox in a Sentence

mailbox

noun
  • On the way to work, I dropped my letters in the corner mailbox.
  • She checked her mailbox daily, hoping for a letter from her son.
  • The victim found the mailbox in two pieces on the ground.
    Bob Sandrick, cleveland, 23 Dec. 2022
  • That’s where the plan to have a mailbox on every street comes in.
    Riazat Butt, The Christian Science Monitor, 5 July 2024
  • Not at the mailbox, not at the neighbors, not at the nearby park.
    Andrew J. Campa, Los Angeles Times, 2 June 2024
  • But this time the strange things in your inbox or mailbox are not part of a scam.
    Sean McDonnell, cleveland, 15 Aug. 2023
  • That song sat in Jack Antonoff’s mailbox for nine months.
    Christian Allaire, Vogue, 18 Jan. 2024
  • Police went to the residence and found the bent mailbox on the ground.
    cleveland, 6 Aug. 2022
  • There is a mailbox in front of the garage for donations.
    cleveland, 3 Dec. 2022
  • Our mailbox was affixed to the house, right beside the door.
    Teri Sforza, Orange County Register, 24 June 2024
  • With a rubber sole, these are also fit for a jaunt to the mailbox.
    Alesandra Dubin, Travel + Leisure, 16 Mar. 2023
  • In the coming days, Morean found checks in their mailbox and red hair dye in the trash.
    Charles Bethea, The New Yorker, 3 July 2024
  • To my neighbor who decided to go out to the mailbox in the buff, put some clothes on!
    Ticked Off, Orlando Sentinel, 19 July 2024
  • And there was a mailbox someone had ordered and put up.
    Stepheny Price, Fox News, 28 Feb. 2024
  • The only area that the mower had difficulty with was close to the base of the mailbox and some of the grass that was close to the curb.
    Kat De Naoum, Better Homes & Gardens, 12 June 2023
  • One car is forced onto to the shoulder of the road, crashing into a stack of tires and a mailbox.
    David Goodhue, Miami Herald, 1 Feb. 2024
  • Mail checks or gift cards at the post office or a drop box rather than putting them in your home mailbox.
    Larry Light, Forbes, 22 Jan. 2023
  • Two bags of small-batch, craft jerky will arrive in dad’s mailbox each month.
    cleveland, 15 June 2022
  • The car then crashed into a concrete mailbox post, LaDieu said.
    Caleb Lunetta, San Diego Union-Tribune, 30 June 2023
  • The church voice mailbox was full, and the phone number doesn’t accept text messages.
    Joe Marusak, Charlotte Observer, 24 Feb. 2024
  • Fresno has seen five bombings of four cars and a mailbox since Dec. 22.
    Will Carless, USA TODAY, 3 Mar. 2023
  • The black mailbox at the entrance to the kennels was covered in pollen and spiderwebs.
    Jennifer Calfas, WSJ, 1 Mar. 2023
  • So the, the Cleveland Heights mailboxes were roped off for a couple of years because of this.
    Laura Johnston, cleveland, 4 Aug. 2023
  • At that rate, the service is on track for a 30 percent increase in mailbox thefts.
    Justin Wm. Moyer, Washington Post, 9 Sep. 2023
  • Don’t forget to bring your letter for Santa and drop it off in the special mailbox to the North Pole.
    Shirley MacFarland, cleveland, 25 Nov. 2022
  • And that was before the killer gas bills began landing in Hult’s mailbox.
    Steve Lopez, Los Angeles Times, 22 Feb. 2023
  • Last week this guy in a Spiderman costume perched on the mailbox for, like, three hours.
    Hazlitt, 30 Aug. 2023
  • At the time, there was some damage to the mailbox, but Knowles decided to not press charges or file a report.
    Kelly Allen, House Beautiful, 10 July 2023
  • Black widows and brown widows are usually found in wood piles, garages, around mailboxes, and in areas of the home that aren’t commonly cleaned.
    Arricca Elin Sansone, Southern Living, 12 Aug. 2024
  • Now the national postal service wants to phase this out by putting mailboxes on every street across the country, part of a plan to modernize a service long challenged by bureaucracy and war.
    Riazat Butt, The Christian Science Monitor, 5 July 2024

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