How to Use milkman in a Sentence

milkman

noun

• Charles remained in the dairy business for many years as a milkman.
  — courant.com, 8 Dec. 2019
• At the age of 13, Thomas Connery became a full-time milkman.
  — Aljean Harmetz, New York Times, 31 Oct. 2020
• About the milkman Teyve with five daughters who had a hard life, who had a sense of humor and a sense of God.
  — Liz McNeil, PEOPLE.com, 9 July 2019
• Hellert was retired from his decades-long job as a milkman.
  — Evan Simko-Bednarski, CNN, 8 May 2020
• The umpire can already seem a man out of time, like a milkman or a doctor who makes house calls.
  — Zach Helfand, The New Yorker, 23 Aug. 2021
• Her father was a milkman and her mother a seamstress and maid.
  — John Wilkens, sandiegouniontribune.com, 27 Apr. 2018
• The sick were quarantined in their rooms, with signs posted on their front doors warning the milkman to stay away.
  — Michael Wilson, New York Times, 2 Apr. 2020
• Dylan Field shines as the poor milkman and loving father, Tevye.
  — Hilary Lee, Orange County Register, 14 Apr. 2017
• Joel Rodriguez performs the role of the milkman, Howie Newsome, from a motorized wheelchair.
  — Tony Adler, Chicago Reader, 13 Sep. 2017
• His father, Milton, was a milkman, and his mother, May Hansen, was a homemaker.
  — Erin Griffith, New York Times, 25 Oct. 2019
• Tevye, a poor milkman with five daughters and an opinionated wife.
  — Joan Hunt, Courant Community, 21 Mar. 2018
• Growing Borden The boomer generation may have fond memories of Elsie on the side of their milkman’s truck.
  — Natalie Walters, Dallas News, 26 May 2020
• And Loop will pick up your empty product bottles and drop off refills, old-school milkman-style (prices vary, and brands like Pantene and the Body Shop are already available; loopstore.com).
  — Zuzu Snyder, Marie Claire, 10 Oct. 2019
• For much of the 20th century, milk was a simple part of daily life in the U.S., as farmers raised cows, milkmen delivered bottles and children chugged it at school.
  — Alana Semuels, Time, 9 Jan. 2020
• Freddie was the milkman for the Noone family in Manchester, England.
  — Bulletin Board, Twin Cities, 10 Nov. 2019
• Bertie had seen from his window something that had been spotted minutes before by a passing milkman.
  — David Usborne, Town & Country, 29 May 2018
• Her father, John, was an aspiring tennis coach who made ends meet as a milkman, and her mother, Doris, was a homemaker.
  — Clay Risen, BostonGlobe.com, 21 Feb. 2023
• But its producers have taken notice of the milkman’s troubles.
  — New York Times, 25 July 2019
• Set in 1901, the first act concerns itself with the everyday stuff of life — getting the kids off to school for mom, getting to work on time for dad, spats between brother and sister, the milkman making his rounds, etc.
  — Jordan Riefe, The Hollywood Reporter, 2 Oct. 2017
• The story is set in 1905 Czarist Russia and revolves around Jewish milkman Tevye and his five daughters, all at or approaching marrying age.
  — G. Allen Johnson, SFChronicle.com, 29 Aug. 2019
• In another, the woman found herself surrounded by workers, including a milkman, a gasman, a newsagent, and a plumber.
  — Mireille Juchau, The New Yorker, 7 Nov. 2019
• Others knew him as their neighborhood milkman growing up.
  — Rebecca Griesbach | [e-mail], al, 14 Sep. 2023
• But then the milkman, a senior paramilitary figure in the struggle against the country’s occupiers, takes an interest in her.
  — Mary Ann Gwinn, The Seattle Times, 20 Feb. 2019
• Her father, an aspiring tennis coach, also worked as a milkman, and her mother was a homemaker.
  — Brian Murphy, Washington Post, 22 Feb. 2023
• The son of a milkman and a waitress, Scruggs remains an affable man, charming and cynical, with dry sense of humor and a salesman’s persistence.
  — Michael E. Ruane, Washington Post, 28 May 2018
• Then supermarkets and single-use containers planted a dead-end sign on our milkman's route.
  — Mat Honan, WIRED, 21 Aug. 2014
• Even a visiting neighbor or milkman might be enlisted, only to see himself pop up in the comics six weeks later dressed as a barbarian or wizard.
  — Garry Trudeau, New York Times, 11 Dec. 2017
• Young also joined forces with his neighbors, including Kevin Ellis, a former investment banker-turned-milkman.
  — CBS News, 15 Jan. 2022
• Since 1964, the musical about a Jewish milkman clinging to tradition in Tsarist Russia has charmed audiences with its humor, heart and iconic music.
  — Kirby Adams, The Courier-Journal, 20 Oct. 2022
• That person is Milkman, who isn’t a milkman but earned the nickname, rumor has it, because of the paramilitary practice of secreting bombs inside milk delivery crates.
  — Sam Sacks, WSJ, 30 Nov. 2018

Last Updated: 3 Nov 2024