Examples of mail order in a Sentence
You can purchase the books by mail order.
The store sent out all its mail orders in time for the holiday.
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With increasing numbers of people running side hustles from home or selling arts and crafts on eBay, a cottage industry of micro mail order businesses has grown massively in recent years and fueled a surge in demand for packaging and shipping products.
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Mark Sparrow, Forbes.com, 15 May 2025
Shields Date Garden Known for its high quality dates, charming café, mail order business, and delicious date shakes, Shields Date Garden opened in 1924.
—Pat Doherty, Travel + Leisure, 6 Apr. 2025
The product was distributed in retail stores, and via mail orders, in New York, Pennsylvania, Maryland, Florida, Georgia, Delaware and Nevada.
—Kristan Hawkins, Newsweek, 7 Feb. 2025
For two decades following O’Reilly’s patent, tattoo artists tinkered with designs for tattoo machines, including ones derived from electric doorbells, which were gaining popularity through mail order catalogs.
—IEEE Spectrum, 30 Apr. 2021
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Mark Sparrow, Forbes.com, 15 May 2025
Shields Date Garden Known for its high quality dates, charming café, mail order business, and delicious date shakes, Shields Date Garden opened in 1924.
—Pat Doherty, Travel + Leisure, 6 Apr. 2025
The product was distributed in retail stores, and via mail orders, in New York, Pennsylvania, Maryland, Florida, Georgia, Delaware and Nevada.
—Kristan Hawkins, Newsweek, 7 Feb. 2025
For two decades following O’Reilly’s patent, tattoo artists tinkered with designs for tattoo machines, including ones derived from electric doorbells, which were gaining popularity through mail order catalogs.
—IEEE Spectrum, 30 Apr. 2021
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“Mail order.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/mail%20order. Accessed 28 May. 2025.
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