mailbox
noun
mail·box
ˈmāl-ˌbäks 
1
: a box at or near a dwelling for the occupant's mail
2
: a public box for deposit of outgoing mail
3
: a computer file in which email is collected
Examples of mailbox in a Sentence
On the way to work, I dropped my letters in the corner mailbox.
She checked her mailbox daily, hoping for a letter from her son.
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His campaign knocked on tens of thousands of doors, and used some of Lurie’s money to buy TV ads and flood mailboxes with campaign material.
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Hannah Wiley, Los Angeles Times, 21 Nov. 2024
Somehow a package was delivered elsewhere, supposedly, to mailbox in a small town in North Carolina.
—Susan Tompor, Detroit Free Press, 13 Nov. 2024
People are definitely on edge and it’s being made worse by the onslaught of negative and scary ads blanketing our television screens and arriving in our mailboxes.
—Abby Sjoberg, Vogue, 4 Nov. 2024
Over the past week, two ballot drop boxes and one USPS mailbox have been torched in three separate incidents in Arizona, Oregon and Washington.
—Nina Turner, Newsweek, 30 Oct. 2024
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Hannah Wiley, Los Angeles Times, 21 Nov. 2024
Somehow a package was delivered elsewhere, supposedly, to mailbox in a small town in North Carolina.
—Susan Tompor, Detroit Free Press, 13 Nov. 2024
People are definitely on edge and it’s being made worse by the onslaught of negative and scary ads blanketing our television screens and arriving in our mailboxes.
—Abby Sjoberg, Vogue, 4 Nov. 2024
Over the past week, two ballot drop boxes and one USPS mailbox have been torched in three separate incidents in Arizona, Oregon and Washington.
—Nina Turner, Newsweek, 30 Oct. 2024
See all Example Sentences for mailbox
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“Mailbox.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/mailbox. Accessed 3 Dec. 2024.
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mailbox
noun
mail·box
ˈmā(ə)l-ˌbäks
1
: a public box in which to place outgoing mail
2
: a private box (as on a house) for the delivery of incoming mail
3
: a computer file in which email is collected
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