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
  • The mailbox was empty and appeared to have been pried open.
    cleveland, 31 Dec. 2021
  • Cathy Koo, who lives across the street from the park, said the original mailbox in front of her house can be seen in the movie.
    Dakota Smith, Los Angeles Times, 8 Mar. 2022
  • 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
  • Due to the length of the van and the fact that there was a mailbox directly in front of it, traffic was unable to pass.
    John Benson, cleveland, 16 Feb. 2022
  • 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
  • On August 7, the father, then aged 71, left the home with Margo to check the mailbox down the street, or so his son thought.
    Rachel Clarke, CNN, 6 Sep. 2024
  • 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
  • This year, the block even added a big mailbox, where kids can leave their letters for Santa Claus to mail to the North Pole.
    Marianne Garvey, CNN, 24 Dec. 2021
  • Some of our vendors have had our checks stolen from their mailboxes.
    Allbusiness, Forbes, 4 Oct. 2024
  • The fire was put out and after the mail was recovered, it was discovered that some of the mail-in ballots in the mailbox were completely damaged.
    Madeline Armstrong | The Center Square, Washington Examiner - Political News and Conservative Analysis About Congress, the President, and the Federal Government, 27 Oct. 2024

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