POSTMAN in a Sentence

Learn POSTMAN from example sentences; some of them are from classic books. These examples are selected from a corpus with 300,000 sentences, including classic works and current mainstream media. Some sentences also link to their contexts.
14 example sentences for POSTMAN, such as:
1. The dog nipped the postman on the leg.
2. Look whether the postman has been yet.
3. The postman was bitten by a fierce dog.
4. The postman brought me a large package.
5. But he was put out by the postman's coming.
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Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
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 Meanings and Examples of POSTMAN
postman
 n.  a man who delivers the mail
Classic Sentence:
1  But he was put out by the postman's coming.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H Lawrence
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 16
2  Then it seems the postman Fred Kirk says he heard somebody talking in Mr Mellors' bedroom early one morning, and a motor-car had been in the lane.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H Lawrence
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 17
3  The postman's knock within the neighbourhood was beginning to bring its daily terrors, and if reading could banish the idea for even half an hour, it was something gained.
Mansfield Park By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XL
4  Deschamps, the notary, that he received from the postman a small billet, which he knew to be from Valentine, although he had not before seen her writing.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre Dumas
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 73. The Promise.
5  It's our day for a letter, and the postman hasn't been.
Little Women By Louisa May Alcott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER FIFTEEN
6  There, the devoted postman on that beat delivered bushels of letters for me; and there, at intervals, I laboured through them, like a Home Secretary of State without the salary.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 61. I AM SHOWN TWO INTERESTING PENITENTS
7  At last the Captain made a postman of it; tying a lettered, leathern tally round its neck, with the ship's time and place; and then letting it escape.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 42. The Whiteness of The Whale.
8  The postman shouted to the man to stop, but the traveller paid no heed and pursued his road at full gallop.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 7: CHAPTER V—HINDRANCES
Example Sentence:
1  The postman was bitten by a fierce dog.
2  The dog nipped the postman on the leg.
3  The postman brought me a large package.
4  Look whether the postman has been yet.
5  I remembered a particular story about a postman who was a murderer.