as in postman
a person who delivers mail
the mailman usually leaves packages outside the mailbox
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Recent Examples of mailman
You, me, my ex-girlfriend, and the mailman who stops in for tea.
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James Parker, The Atlantic, 31 Dec. 2024
Barry Gibbs was a familiar figure around the Manhattan enclave of Sutton Place, a mailman who delivered packages among the dignified apartment buildings staffed by uniformed doormen.
—Lizz Schumer, People.com, 29 Dec. 2024
Meanwhile, Teddy starts a neighborhood Secret Santa with the Belchers, Mort, and their mailman.
—Lillian Brown, Vulture, 16 Dec. 2024
Tori Halford surprised her mailman with a personalized basket of snacks and treats.
—Zoey Lyttle, Peoplemag, 14 Aug. 2024
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James Parker, The Atlantic, 31 Dec. 2024
Barry Gibbs was a familiar figure around the Manhattan enclave of Sutton Place, a mailman who delivered packages among the dignified apartment buildings staffed by uniformed doormen.
—Lizz Schumer, People.com, 29 Dec. 2024
Meanwhile, Teddy starts a neighborhood Secret Santa with the Belchers, Mort, and their mailman.
—Lillian Brown, Vulture, 16 Dec. 2024
Tori Halford surprised her mailman with a personalized basket of snacks and treats.
—Zoey Lyttle, Peoplemag, 14 Aug. 2024
See All Example Sentences for mailman
Recent Examples of Synonyms for mailman
Noun
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James Blackledge, a 33-year-old postman in Bristol, England, has made sacrifices too.—
Rob Picheta,
CNN,
24 Mar. 2025
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These trees are all clones from the original Hass tree developed by Rudolph Hass, a postman in Los Angeles.—
Elizabeth Weise,
USA TODAY,
3 Mar. 2025
Noun
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In 1835, an anti-abolition mob raided the Charleston, South Carolina, post office and, with the help of the city postmaster, burned bundles of abolitionist newspapers.—
Sarah Prager,
JSTOR Daily,
12 Mar. 2025
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The federal government was small by modern standards, but President Jackson’s appointment of loyalists as federal land agents and postmasters meant that political appointees had power to allocate lucrative land sales in the frontier and distribute partisan newspapers.—
Yong Kwon / Made by History,
TIME,
7 Mar. 2025
Noun
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From April through July 2023, the five men sentenced — along with three others previously sentenced — all played individual roles in a bigger plan to rob mail carriers of their arrow keys, at times putting a gun to their heads to force them to hand over the key , according to court documents.—
Natalie Demaree,
Miami Herald,
28 Mar. 2025
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Thieves can steal mail by fishing or breaking into mail boxes with force, package theft and robbing mail carriers.—
Rosalio Ahumada,
Sacbee.com,
28 Mar. 2025
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“Mailman.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/mailman. Accessed 4 Apr. 2025.
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