How to Use postage stamp in a Sentence

postage stamp

noun
  • Now there’s a US postage stamp, with his name and face on it.
    BostonGlobe.com, 26 June 2021
  • When the weather is nice, the postage stamp-sized roof opens as well.
    Brandon Presser, Condé Nast Traveler, 17 Mar. 2020
  • Four years later, the bear made it on to his own postage stamp.
    Chelsey Lewis, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 13 Apr. 2019
  • One of my friends enclosed a book of postage stamps in her get-well card.
    Washington Post, 8 July 2019
  • His name adorns buildings, parks, books and a U.S. postage stamp.
    Shanti Lerner, The Arizona Republic, 7 Oct. 2021
  • There’s more art in the postage stamp of a city center than anyplace on earth.
    Brian T. Allen, National Review, 21 Dec. 2023
  • In that regard, rare coins may have an edge over rare postage stamps.
    Steve Rubenstein, SFChronicle.com, 11 Feb. 2020
  • Even the dessert menu is tiny, barely bigger than a postage stamp.
    Kate Washington, sacbee, 23 Mar. 2018
  • The tables were sticky and the ladies room down some rickety stairs, dimly lit, and felt like the size of a postage stamp.
    Kate Stone Lombardi, Good Housekeeping, 25 June 2020
  • And there was even talk, at one point, of attaching postage stamps to e-mail.
    David Scharfenberg, BostonGlobe.com, 14 June 2018
  • One of her self-portraits even appeared on a postage stamp.
    Sarah Kuta, Smithsonian Magazine, 28 July 2022
  • The paintings were copied onto postage stamps and more than 4 million sets of posters before the end of the war.
    Kevin Baker, Harper's magazine, 10 Mar. 2019
  • In 1991, Matzeliger was featured on a United States postage stamp.
    Washington Post, 14 Feb. 2022
  • The company’s battery free sensor is the size of a postage stamp.
    Mike Freeman, San Diego Union-Tribune, 27 July 2021
  • On one page from Saar’s Haiti sketchbooks, earth tones overlap a Haitian postage stamp.
    Catherine G. Wagley, BostonGlobe.com, 16 Mar. 2023
  • Three years later, in 1840, consumers in the United Kingdom were able to buy and use postage stamps.
    Christine Rousselle, Fox News, 1 July 2023
  • This isn't the first time Lennon has been commemorated on a postage stamp.
    David Chiu, Forbes, 21 Sep. 2021
  • He was given medals and his image was featured on postage stamps.
    BostonGlobe.com, 26 Sep. 2019
  • Her face has graced a postage stamp, a statue of her now stands in Clarkesville, and awards, buildings, and even a stretch of highway have been named for her.
    Kate Siber, Outside Online, 8 June 2018
  • The Hillsboro lighthouse is best known for being featured on a U.S. postage stamp.
    Sun Sentinel, 18 Sep. 2022
  • The agency is also the creator and distributor of the postage stamp.
    Chris Klimek, Smithsonian Magazine, 6 Sep. 2022
  • This wallpaper works more like an old-school postage stamp, rather than a sticker.
    Jennifer Barger, Washington Post, 21 Mar. 2023
  • In a smartphone, a chip is usually about the size of your fingernail in a smartphone or, on the larger side of the scale, the size of a postage stamp.
    Courtney Linder, Popular Mechanics, 27 Aug. 2019
  • Arizona’s smallest bar covers a cozy 95 square feet, and has four stools and a postage stamp-size table.
    Roger Naylor, azcentral, 14 Aug. 2019
  • Read full article There was the wire clothesline in the courtyard, draped with a blue blanket cut into the size of a postage stamp.
    Vivian Wang, BostonGlobe.com, 19 Aug. 2023
  • Five classic muscle cars from the height of the pony-car era are about to look good standing perfectly still on a postage stamp.
    Sebastian Blanco, Car and Driver, 16 July 2022
  • The number of full-length movies scientists could one day cram onto a storage device the size of a postage stamp.
    Lacy Schley, Discover Magazine, 10 Nov. 2017
  • There isn't a postage stamp in circulation with John Adams' picture on it.
    CBS News, 9 Aug. 2022
  • Smokey has also appeared on postage stamps, billboards and even a hot-air balloon.
    Emily Johnson, USA TODAY, 9 Aug. 2019
  • Some look like a postage stamp, others like an album cover and others like an image from the web.
    Tom Teicholz, Forbes, 12 May 2021

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