How to Use junk mail in a Sentence

junk mail

noun
  • Aside from the annoyance of spam calls and junk mail, this was the year of the largest data breach in Texas.
    Dave Lieber, Dallas News, 1 July 2021
  • The Impact of Junk Mail The effects of junk mail are far-reaching.
    Rebecca Clarke, Treehugger, 25 July 2023
  • Word to the wise, lottery players: Check your junk mail.
    Alain Sherter, CBS News, 24 Jan. 2022
  • But for many people, the texts come across as spam, the 2020 equivalent of junk mail.
    NBC News, 29 Oct. 2020
  • Hoarding patients and a control group who didn’t hoard brought their junk mail to the lab.
    Gail Steketee, Discover Magazine, 30 Mar. 2010
  • Then be sure to label all junk mail as spam; that helps the spam filter do a better job.
    Steve Alexander, Star Tribune, 23 Aug. 2020
  • Many of the form letters voters receive look like junk mail and aren't even read, this side says.
    Stephen Koff, cleveland.com, 10 Jan. 2018
  • So remember to check your junk mail. ► Be a little pushy.
    Christopher Elliott, USA TODAY, 12 Nov. 2022
  • One additional way to cut paper waste is to opt out of junk mail.
    Allison Chinchar, CNN, 3 Jan. 2021
  • Most consumers assume these notices are junk mail and throw them away.
    Washington Post, 29 Jan. 2020
  • The decline in junk mail was partly offset by a steep rise in package shipping.
    Ryan Cooper, TheWeek, 11 Aug. 2020
  • Paperless billing services help, as do services to opt out of junk mail.
    New York Times, 6 July 2018
  • The spam filter is already helping you; its contents are the junk mail that never made it to your inbox.
    Steve Alexander, Star Tribune, 18 July 2021
  • The videos cover subjects ranging from how to spot junk mail to the time a colleague had to deliver a package of live snakes.
    David Ingram, NBC News, 28 Jan. 2023
  • That inspired the use of Spam as the go-to term for online junk mail, initially by a programmer named Joel Furr in the early 1990s.
    Ralph Keyes, Time, 1 Apr. 2021
  • The cards came in plain white envelopes that confused some families who mistook them for junk mail.
    Kristen Taketa, San Diego Union-Tribune, 9 July 2023
  • At its peak, junk mail was considered a scourge and viewed with some of the same contempt that is reserved for online ads today.
    Heather Kelly, Washington Post, 30 Jan. 2020
  • This is understandable with the amount of junk mail, ads, privacy policy updates, and the like that come in the post.
    Gary Singer, Sun Sentinel, 1 Dec. 2022
  • For one thing, your state's lax attitude toward privacy could be adding to your pile of junk mail.
    Annie White, Car and Driver, 4 Apr. 2020
  • Many people in both the first and second round of stimulus payments mistook the debit card for junk mail.
    Washington Post, 16 Mar. 2021
  • Tap or click for five inbox hacks, including ways to banish tracking and junk mail.
    Kim Komando, USA TODAY, 11 June 2021
  • In the weeks that followed, Husseini began receiving the odd junk mail.
    BostonGlobe.com, 29 Nov. 2019
  • Be sure to sort through your mail carefully so your rebate check doesn't get tossed out with the junk mail and call to follow up if your rebate does not come on time.
    The Motley Fool, 4 May 2018
  • Many people just don’t check their mail on a regular basis, or toss the census mailers aside as junk mail.
    Dan Kopf, Quartz, 22 Apr. 2020
  • Police connected the case to Durst after finding his junk mail, complete with address, along with the body parts.
    Megan Friedman, Town & Country, 26 July 2017
  • However, the universe gave her a surprise when tucked in between her junk mail and bills was a 100-year-old artifact.
    Slone Terranella, Detroit Free Press, 26 Sep. 2020
  • Everybody with a mailbox or email address receives their share of junk mail.
    Dallas News, 23 May 2020
  • Like death and taxes, junk mail seems like an inevitability.
    Perry Vandell, azcentral, 1 July 2019
  • Vivek said the email was so low-key and seemingly innocuous and easily could have been bypassed as junk mail.
    San Diego Union-Tribune, 30 Aug. 2022
  • There is suspiciously little junk mail, given that his email addresses are freely available to the public through a quick Google search.
    Lauren Larson, Men's Health, 7 Sep. 2023

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