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Examples of post road in a Sentence
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The stone house off an old wooded post road in Garrison, New York, had been long rented to a group of hippies who had been burning furniture for heat.
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Curbed, 29 Dec. 2023
The constitutional authority that created the Postal Service allowed for the construction of post roads to link faraway cities; eventually, these ran all the way from Florida to Maine.
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Casey Cep, The New Yorker, 2 May 2020
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Word History
First Known Use
1657, in the meaning defined above
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“Post road.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/post%20road. Accessed 11 Feb. 2025.
Kids Definition
post road
noun
: a road over which mail is carried
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