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Examples of post road in a Sentence
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The stone house off an old wooded post road in Garrison, New York, had been long rented to a group of hippies who had been burning furniture for heat.
—Curbed, 29 Dec. 2023
The constitutional authority that created the Postal Service allowed for the construction of post roads to link faraway cities; eventually, these ran all the way from Florida to Maine.
—Casey Cep, The New Yorker, 2 May 2020
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First Known Use
1657, in the meaning defined above
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“Post road.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/post%20road. Accessed 22 Nov. 2024.
Kids Definition
post road
noun
: a road over which mail is carried
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