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
  • El Monte’s deputy postmaster refused to deliver pro-Union newspapers to subscribers.
    Patt Morrison, Los Angeles Times, 12 Apr. 2024

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