How to Use airmail in a Sentence

airmail

noun

• The package was sent by airmail.
• Anyone who plays pickup ball knows the guy whose full-court, behind-the-back heave airmails you at least once per game.
  — Matt Calkins, The Seattle Times, 26 Aug. 2017
• Here are our lessons learned from years of transatlantic trips, Skype sessions, and airmail sent, just in time for Valentine's Day.
  — Laura Dannen Redman, Condé Nast Traveler, 14 Feb. 2018
• This can be achieved by bouncing the bag over the blocker or by throwing an airmail, a bag that goes into the hole without touching the board.
  — Jen Murphy, WSJ, 2 Feb. 2020
• Charles Lindbergh flew airmail from it before making the first solo flight across the Atlantic.
  — The Economist, 30 Dec. 2020
• The post office has always been able to adapt to technological change — from the Pony Express to the advent of airmail.
  — Star Tribune, 1 June 2021
• A dozen pilots were killed in more than 60 crashes before private airmail was restored just a few months later.
  — Caroline Delbert, Popular Mechanics, 9 Sep. 2020
• Team BlackSheep is doing something practical for once, by sending airmail by drone over the Swiss Alps, a distance of 100km.
  — IEEE Spectrum, 24 Jan. 2023
• Over the next decade, Wold-Chamberlain Field expanded on the property in tandem with an airmail route to Chicago.
  — Janet Moore, Star Tribune, 28 May 2021
• In the mid 1970s, airborne mail converged with first class mail and made the airmail classification obsolete within the U.S.
  — Caroline Delbert, Popular Mechanics, 24 Mar. 2020
• But that didn’t stop an ambitious thief from crating himself up and shipping himself airmail.
  — Steve Hendrix, Washington Post, 24 May 2017
• Few persons realize it, but a transatlantic airmail route already is in operation and has been for about two years.
  — W. Irving Glover, Popular Mechanics, 6 May 2021
• The ride is far worse in a vehicle bouncing over the rough landscapes of Earth’s backcountry, and sending samples via airmail is quite expensive.
  — Carl Engelking, Discover Magazine, 29 July 2015
• Those packages, whether by sea or airmail, arrived with the holiday aroma intact.
  — cleveland, 20 Dec. 2021
• Soon the Post Office Department lobbied Congress to fund an airmail service.
  — Eric Tegler, Popular Mechanics, 9 May 2018
• The Inverted Jenny error stamp was created for the first U.S. government airmail service and was worth 24 cents.
  — Chanel Stitt, Detroit Free Press, 11 June 2020
• Still, terrorists managed to acquire plastic explosives and the components needed to set it off—all shipped by airmail from Turkey.
  — Ahmet S. Yayla, WSJ, 9 Aug. 2017
• MSP Airport got its start in the 1920s as an airmail operation on a former racetrack south of Minneapolis.
  — Eric Roper, Star Tribune, 8 July 2021
• Jet needed great pictures every week; Williams supplied his editors with film via airmail envelopes and turned his passion into a career.
  — Cecil Williams, National Geographic, 16 Sep. 2020
• He was always drawn to narrow niches: United States airmail stamps, for instance, and half-dollars that depict windblown Liberty in midstride.
  — New York Times, 8 May 2018
• The team beat Ghana, allowed a stoppage-time equalizer to Portugal, lost to the eventual champion Germany and was a Wondo airmail away from reaching the quarterfinal.
  — Andrew Joseph, USA TODAY, 12 Oct. 2017
• Homing pigeons can return to their lofts from more than a thousand miles away, a navigational prowess that has been admired for ages; five millennia ago, the Egyptians used them, like owls at Hogwarts, as a kind of early airmail.
  — Kathryn Schulz, The New Yorker, 29 Mar. 2021
• While dedicated airmail began 150 years ago, flights for both cargo and passengers became more plentiful and the postal service threw envelopes and parcels onto cross-country flights.
  — Caroline Delbert, Popular Mechanics, 24 Mar. 2020
• Airmail: Nextel subscribers can now locate their Federal Express packages on their wireless phones.
  — Elisa Batista, WIRED, 23 Jan. 2002
• June and Greg Siple corresponded with sponsors, family and friends by airmail, collecting general-delivery letters at post offices along the way.
  — Washington Post, 13 Jan. 2022
• Pilots across America are flying the original transcontinental airmail route for its 100th anniversary.
  — Caroline Delbert, Popular Mechanics, 9 Sep. 2020
• America’s commercial aviation industry, in fact, owes its existence to airmail.
  — Adam Cohen, Smithsonian, 18 May 2018

Last Updated: 5 Sep 2024