How to Use postmaster in a Sentence

postmaster

noun

• Averell was a postmaster, a notary public and a justice of the peace.
  — Eliza McGraw, Smithsonian, 12 Mar. 2018
• Then Alexander Purdie, the postmaster at the time, bought him.
  — Patricia R. Olsen, New York Times, 8 June 2018
• Park became postmaster in 1841, hence the name Parkville.
  — Martha Zirschky, kansascity.com, 26 May 2017
• Jeannie wrote to a postmaster, and Tom to a high-school sports director.
  — Kristina Rizga, The Atlantic, 9 Sep. 2020
• So, the postmaster suggested Santa Claus, and the name stuck.
  — CBS News, 12 Dec. 2021
• Some of the postmaster’s fiercest critics praised the announcement.
  — Jacob Bogage, Washington Post, 20 Dec. 2022
• The postmaster’s library is now a ballroom, and the mail sorting room houses Dirty Habit, a stylish bar and restaurant.
  — Lindsay Cohn, Travel + Leisure, 4 July 2023
• In Oregon, the problem was that while Hayes won the popular vote and thus the state’s three electors, one of them was a county postmaster.
  — Ron Grossman, chicagotribune.com, 25 Sep. 2020
• The town was called Travilah, and it was named after the first postmaster, though not in the way that Answer Man expected.
  — Washington Post, 3 Oct. 2020
• The first customer to taste this new concoction happened to be Henry Radaz, the city’s postmaster.
  — Richard A. Marini, San Antonio Express-News, 8 Nov. 2021
• As Macroon, the film’s narrator and the island’s widowed postmaster, Gregor Fisher leads a cast that’s ill-served by the musty script.
  — Jeannette Catsoulis, New York Times, 11 May 2017
• The home of the postmaster was the only private residence destroyed.
  — Kelly Kazek, AL.com, 25 Aug. 2017
• The local area postmaster must approve the removal and must post a sign on the box for 30 days with an address and phone number so the public can make comments.
  — USA Today, 31 Aug. 2020
• In 1914, the postmaster general instituted a rule about the mail that stands to this day: no humans.
  — Steve Hendrix, Washington Post, 24 May 2017
• De La Garza is Duke’s postmaster, in charge of the incoming and outgoing mail on campus.
  — Scott Gleeson, USA TODAY, 5 Mar. 2022
• Armand, the son of the village postmaster, is tasked to deliver Vincent’s last letter to Theo.
  — Jackie Mansky, Smithsonian, 20 Feb. 2018
• The one at 54 Tradd Street, for example, was home to Charleston's fifth postmaster, who operated the post office out of his front room.
  — Jennifer Billock, Smithsonian Magazine, 23 Mar. 2020
• John Williams, the Yakutat postmaster, and his wife left Khantaak Island shortly before the earthquake and could see the wreckage of the island behind them.
  — David Reamer | Alaska History, Anchorage Daily News, 3 Apr. 2023
• Wanda Diaz is the first Puerto Rican woman to hold the role and also the third woman to be named postmaster, according to the agency.
  — Aya Elamroussi, CNN, 17 Sep. 2022
• My mother was a prairie princess, the only child of a school superintendent who doubled as a postmaster, from a tiny town in North Dakota.
  — Peter Schjeldahl, The New Yorker, 16 Dec. 2019
• The folks who knew her were outraged and more than 200 merchants and residents in Baltimore sent the postmaster a petition asking to keep her in place.
  — Petula Dvorak, Alaska Dispatch News, 4 July 2017
• Turning them in, maxing your inventory and postmaster and sorting through rolls is not exactly a speedy process, so don’t leave this to the last minute.
  — Paul Tassi, Forbes, 27 Jan. 2022
• Geology students helped collect about 100 kilograms of Murchison, and a local postmaster mailed pieces of it to labs across the world.
  — Joshua Sokol, Science | AAAS, 13 Aug. 2020
• His ears heard an unusual beeping sound coming from a house on his route — which happened to belong to the mother of his boss, the Waterloo postmaster.
  — Travis Deshong, Washington Post, 1 Nov. 2019
• The body of the postmaster, Ginger Ballard, 53, was found lying between two vehicles.
  — CBS News, 24 Dec. 2017
• Move items to and from your vault, between characters, from the postmaster, search with filters, even create loadouts with this desktop and mobile tool.
  — Paul Tassi, Forbes, 11 Oct. 2022
• In fact, postmasters paid to run ads in local papers listing who had letters to collect so those people would retrieve them.
  — Andrea Valdez, The Atlantic, 28 Apr. 2024
• Still, DeJoy acknowledged to Peters — a Democrat and vocal critic of the new postmaster — that there have been mail delays.
  — Frank Witsil, Detroit Free Press, 21 Aug. 2020
• But this contract with Amazon eventually caught up with him, and the postmaster was unable to find people who would cover his shift.
  — Taylor Wilson, USA TODAY, 18 Apr. 2023
• Offers have been made to all 2,417 current or former postmasters under the Horizon Shortfall Scheme.
  — TIME, 6 Jan. 2024

Last Updated: 11 Sep 2024