How to Use postman in a Sentence

postman

noun

• Then a few weeks go by and the postman brings the rods to my door.
  — Star Tribune, 30 July 2020
• The small postman loses the vivid red streaks on its hind wings.
  — Ed Yong, The Atlantic, 18 Sep. 2017
• Even the postman avoided the narrow lane that went there.
  — Andrea Bussell, Condé Nast Traveler, 7 Nov. 2022
• The notes were sent out with divers who made an 11-hour, back-and-forth journey to act as postmen.
  — Washington Post, 8 July 2018
• None has come to mean more to me than the postman wearing a white pith helmet.
  — Elaine Ayala, ExpressNews.com, 19 Sep. 2020
• The postman, the fireman, the policeman and clerk at the convenience store, the ladies at the dry cleaner.
  — Kyle Ringo, San Antonio Express-News, 27 May 2018
• His father was a postman, and his mother worked in linen mills.
  — Neil Genzlinger, New York Times, 11 Oct. 2019
• But putting Kit’s face on the envelope might be a bit of a giveaway, at least for postmen across the country.
  — Megan McCluskey, Time, 30 Apr. 2018
• But like Wolf’s crows, the cydno longwing and postman prefer to mate with their own kind.
  — Quanta Magazine, 5 Aug. 2014
• Not just the postman and the barber, but also the aspiring belly dancer, the night clipper, the cat looser, and all the rest.
  — Ian Bogost, The Atlantic, 20 June 2018
• Mules were so profitable that everyone in Plano, even the barber and the postman, took to trading them.
  — Dallas News, 23 Mar. 2020
• My postman is sometimes a postwoman, taking over the route for for a few days.
  — Beth Thames | [e-mail], al, 26 Aug. 2020
• Don, who grew up in Hartford, became a postman after serving three years in the Army.
  — M.a.c. Lynch, courant.com, 18 Feb. 2018
• Lydia often pauses in the vestibule between the first and second door to inspect the packages that the postman has dropped.
  — Leslie Kendall Dye, Longreads, 10 Aug. 2020
• The inventor’s improved design engaged the circuit when the postman opened the box.
  — IEEE Spectrum, 8 Aug. 2018
• Dik LaPine has been a postman in Duluth, Minn., for 21 years and prides himself on rarely missing shifts.
  — John D. Stoll, WSJ, 16 Mar. 2020
• The postal police said the stash in the Vicenza home of the 56-year-old postman was the biggest seizure of mail ever undertaken in Italy.
  — Washington Post, 29 Jan. 2018
• Each day Julia watched for the postman to deliver the mail, his hand on the outboard motor steering him toward the dock.
  — Jennifer Gilmore, Harper’s Magazine , 13 Mar. 2023
• His father, William, was a postman, and his mother, Mary (Maggin) Carson, worked in linen mills.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 10 Oct. 2019
• But this Texas postman deserves a standing ovation from us all.
  — Southern Living, 8 Aug. 2017
• The cydno longwing is black with white or yellow markings, and the postman is black with red and yellow markings.
  — Quanta Magazine, 5 Aug. 2014
• This is the dramatic moment a postman came face-to-face with a shark while snorkeling off the coast of Cornwall, England.
  — People Staff, PEOPLE.com, 16 Aug. 2021
• His father held a series of jobs, including as a postman.
  — New York Times, 4 Feb. 2022
• To that end, the young man gets a job as the postman to Pablo Neruda when the legendary writer, poet and diplomat moves there after being exiled from Chile.
  — Jamie Lang, Variety, 9 Nov. 2021
• Her father, Frank Bunker, dabbled in poetry and served as a Sauk Centre postman.
  — Curt Brown, Star Tribune, 27 Mar. 2021
• Spending all day bringing other people their mail, the postman probably never gets any of his own mail, the child thought.
  — Marlisse Cepeda, Woman's Day, 11 Mar. 2015
• The country postman drove along an empty road through a corridor of trees fringed by wildflowers.
  — John Carlisle, Freep.com, 4 Sep. 2022
• Katja introduced her to an English guy who was dressed, for some reason, in a Weimar-era postman’s uniform.
  — Hari Kunzru, The New Yorker, 29 June 2020
• These guys included a teacher, a postman, a tour guide, and a factory worker.
  — National Geographic, 5 June 2016
• Jesper is sent to be the postman of the distant town of Smeerensburg and forms an unlikely friendship with a withdrawn toymaker, Klaus.
  — Leah Campano, Seventeen, 5 Dec. 2022

Last Updated: 6 Sep 2024