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.
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.
Search Quotes from Classic Book Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen |
Meanings and Examples of POSTMAN
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postman
n. a man who delivers the mail
Classic Sentence:
1 But he was put out by the postman's coming.
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.
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.
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.
5 It's our day for a letter, and the postman hasn't been.
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
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.
8 The postman shouted to the man to stop, but the traveller paid no heed and pursued his road at full gallop.
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.