How to Use mailman in a Sentence

mailman

noun

• The Gazette believed White to be the only mailman doing so in the state.
  — Tom Dillard, Arkansas Online, 14 Mar. 2021
• The mailman comes through the Savoir office with a response from Camille.
  — Jessica Goldstein, Vulture, 23 Dec. 2021
• That’s when the mailman pulled out a water bottle and poured the contents over the urine.
  — John Benson, cleveland, 6 Oct. 2021
• The mailman knew more about his customers than the neighbors did.
  — Beth Thames | [e-mail], al, 26 Aug. 2020
• Firefighters said the mailman heard the smoke alarm inside the house then went around the back to check it out.
  — Amber Jayanth, Cincinnati.com, 17 Jan. 2018
• The mailman and the next door neighbor know exactly how to snap him out of it.
  — Paul Hoynes, cleveland, 5 May 2022
• The suspect pulled out a gun and opened fire — the bullet whizzing past the mailman, police said.
  — NBC News, 23 Apr. 2022
• Neighbors say the pair had attacked the mailman over the summer.
  — Harriet Sokmensuer, PEOPLE.com, 5 Oct. 2021
• The first official marathon happened at the 1896 Olympics and was won by a Greek mailman.
  — New York Times, 8 July 2020
• In the video, Rudd plays a mailman who tries to hand Claud all of the mail from his bag and seems uncertain of how to do his job.
  — Christy Piña, The Hollywood Reporter, 17 July 2023
• There were no charges of selling ballots brought against the mailman.
  — CBS News, 30 Sep. 2020
• The ones on our list just might have your dog looking forward to the mailman's arrival.
  — Kalea Martin, Peoplemag, 26 Mar. 2023
• The mailman is forced to climb the stairs because the kids have taken over the elevator.
  — New York Times, 18 Jan. 2022
• Her young daughter clambered up and down the steps in flip-flops, and the mailman brought a handful of envelopes.
  — USA TODAY, 18 Aug. 2017
• When the mailman sees that yesterday’s mail has been picked up that is a signal.
  — Carolyn Graybeal, Discover Magazine, 2 July 2014
• The moment was inspired by one of Hanawalt’s grisly dreams, in which a jaguar ate her mailman’s face off.
  — The New Yorker, 15 Aug. 2021
• The mailman quickly dropped his mailbag, fell to his knees, opened his arms, and exclaimed, ‘Son!
  — Elliot Ackerman, WIRED, 9 Feb. 2024
• Anyone along the way can read or even change it: the folks in the post office, the mailman or just anyone who gets their hands on it in some way.
  — Lila Kee, Forbes, 24 Sep. 2021
• Before the coronavirus, our mailman rarely had to climb out of his truck and trudge to our front door to drop off a package.
  — Peter Funt, WSJ, 9 June 2020
• The injured mailman got back out of his truck and first ran for help to one home before having to go to two others.
  — Carol Robinson | [e-mail], al, 24 July 2021
• Two chances this week for fans to celebrate what would have been the 74th birthday of the singing mailman, who died in April from the coronavirus.
  — Staff Reports Star Tribune, Star Tribune, 8 Oct. 2020
• Faye also chats with the mailman (John Way), whose letters are carried by mule.
  — Bill Goodykoontz, The Arizona Republic, 16 Aug. 2022
• Where his dad was a mailman and his mother was a domestic helper for that house full of wealthy white people.
  — Dana Hunsinger Benbow, USA TODAY, 28 Feb. 2021
• So, the genes that make a Shih Tzu liable to snap at the mailman’s ankles might not be the same ones making a Springer Spaniel more likely to play rough at the dog park.
  — Nathaniel Scharping, Discover Magazine, 18 Aug. 2023
• His father sends him to a cold, remote village called Smeerenburg to be a mailman.
  — Carolyn Giardina, The Hollywood Reporter, 9 Dec. 2019
• Lucy enjoys solitary naps and barking at the mailman through a glass window.
  — The Know Staff, The Know, 6 Apr. 2020
• If you've been fooled by the age-old reputation dogs have for being not so nice to mailmen, UPS Dogs might change your mind.
  — Emma Austin, The Courier-Journal, 7 Jan. 2020
• Our social friends sort of got used to it, as did the mailman, FedEx guy and even our favorite pizza delivery folks.
  — Annie Lane, oregonlive, 24 May 2020
• Unable to fit the catalogs — there were about 20 a day — into the mailbox, the mailman let himself in and placed them on the coffee table.
  — Andy Schatschneider, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 1 Mar. 2018
• Holbrook, a wildlife photographer and retired mailman, noticed that things were moving around in his Builth Wells, Wales, shed overnight.
  — Catherine Garcia, theweek, 11 Jan. 2024

Last Updated: 19 Aug 2024