How to Use postage stamp in a Sentence
postage stamp
noun-
The country put his face on a postage stamp and a gold coin.
— Rick Maese, Washington Post, 28 July 2024 -
Now there’s a US postage stamp, with his name and face on it.
— BostonGlobe.com, 26 June 2021 -
When the weather is nice, the postage stamp-sized roof opens as well.
— Brandon Presser, Condé Nast Traveler, 17 Mar. 2020 -
Four years later, the bear made it on to his own postage stamp.
— Chelsey Lewis, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 13 Apr. 2019 -
The premise was simple: Pass your work around with just a postage stamp.
— Gabriela Riccardi, Quartz, 5 June 2024 -
One of my friends enclosed a book of postage stamps in her get-well card.
— Washington Post, 8 July 2019 -
His name adorns buildings, parks, books and a U.S. postage stamp.
— Shanti Lerner, The Arizona Republic, 7 Oct. 2021 -
There’s more art in the postage stamp of a city center than anyplace on earth.
— Brian T. Allen, National Review, 21 Dec. 2023 -
In that regard, rare coins may have an edge over rare postage stamps.
— Steve Rubenstein, SFChronicle.com, 11 Feb. 2020 -
Even the dessert menu is tiny, barely bigger than a postage stamp.
— Kate Washington, sacbee, 23 Mar. 2018 -
The tables were sticky and the ladies room down some rickety stairs, dimly lit, and felt like the size of a postage stamp.
— Kate Stone Lombardi, Good Housekeeping, 25 June 2020 -
The stage was little more than an oversized postage stamp.
— David Lyman, Cincinnati.com, 8 Sep. 2017 -
And there was even talk, at one point, of attaching postage stamps to e-mail.
— David Scharfenberg, BostonGlobe.com, 14 June 2018 -
One of her self-portraits even appeared on a postage stamp.
— Sarah Kuta, Smithsonian Magazine, 28 July 2022 -
The Irish government had honored him with a postage stamp (of course).
— Jay Nordlinger, National Review, 30 Oct. 2017 -
The paintings were copied onto postage stamps and more than 4 million sets of posters before the end of the war.
— Kevin Baker, Harper's magazine, 10 Mar. 2019 -
In 1991, Matzeliger was featured on a United States postage stamp.
— Washington Post, 14 Feb. 2022 -
The company’s battery free sensor is the size of a postage stamp.
— Mike Freeman, San Diego Union-Tribune, 27 July 2021 -
On one page from Saar’s Haiti sketchbooks, earth tones overlap a Haitian postage stamp.
— Catherine G. Wagley, BostonGlobe.com, 16 Mar. 2023 -
It was featured on a postage stamp that raised more than $10 million for victims of Sept. 11.
— Rachel Barber, The Courier-Journal, 3 July 2024 -
Three years later, in 1840, consumers in the United Kingdom were able to buy and use postage stamps.
— Christine Rousselle, Fox News, 1 July 2023 -
This isn't the first time Lennon has been commemorated on a postage stamp.
— David Chiu, Forbes, 21 Sep. 2021 -
He was given medals and his image was featured on postage stamps.
— BostonGlobe.com, 26 Sep. 2019 -
Her face has graced a postage stamp, a statue of her now stands in Clarkesville, and awards, buildings, and even a stretch of highway have been named for her.
— Kate Siber, Outside Online, 8 June 2018 -
The Hillsboro lighthouse is best known for being featured on a U.S. postage stamp.
— Sun Sentinel, 18 Sep. 2022 -
The agency is also the creator and distributor of the postage stamp.
— Chris Klimek, Smithsonian Magazine, 6 Sep. 2022 -
This wallpaper works more like an old-school postage stamp, rather than a sticker.
— Jennifer Barger, Washington Post, 21 Mar. 2023 -
In a smartphone, a chip is usually about the size of your fingernail in a smartphone or, on the larger side of the scale, the size of a postage stamp.
— Courtney Linder, Popular Mechanics, 27 Aug. 2019 -
How avant-garde, really, is a group that designs postage stamps?
— Jackson Arn, The New Yorker, 18 Mar. 2024 -
In 1777, in southwestern Vermont, my little, rural postage stamp of a home, shots not exactly heard round the world were fired.
— Brian T. Allen, National Review, 4 July 2024
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