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Examples of special delivery in a Sentence
She sent him a letter by special delivery.
Recent Examples on the Web
Kelly Clarkson surprised Alex Wolff with one extra special delivery on her daytime talk show.
—EW.com, 10 July 2024
The day after Cherry’s special delivery, Bowers died.
—Stephanie Gallman Jordan, Southern Living, 20 May 2024
Editors’ Picks The realization coincided with a special delivery from Yamaha — an upright Disklavier, a cyborg piano that is wired to play itself from memory or from a laptop’s input that a pianist can simultaneously play.
—Grayson Haver Currin, New York Times, 25 Mar. 2024
Inside was tissue from half a dozen rattlesnake spinal cords packed in ice — a special delivery for his new research adviser Boris Chagnaud, a behavioral neuroscientist based on the other side of the Alps.
—Quanta Magazine, 11 Mar. 2024
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Word History
First Known Use
1865, in the meaning defined above
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“Special delivery.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/special%20delivery. Accessed 5 Nov. 2024.
Kids Definition
special delivery
noun
: delivery of mail by messenger for an extra fee
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