Example sentences for: mail-order

How can you use “mail-order” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • Shoppers hold mail-order firms to a higher standard than department stores when it comes to keeping things in stock, because the catalogs afford them a photo and item number for every parka, turtleneck, and blazer ever placed in inventory.

  • As Washington's economy improved, the reserve fund swelled to today's $1 billion, creating a political opportunity for I-695 mastermind Tim Eyman, who makes his living selling mail-order sorority wristwatches out of his Mukilteo garage.

  • More than a century ago a major wave of innovations in distribution and production led to the modern department store, the mail-order house, and the chain store, and reshaped their suppliers.

  • Compaq’s main competitors, Dell Computer and Gateway 2000, sell directly to consumers through mail-order and Internet operations.

  • 95, hand-held, electronic dictionary, offered in a mail-order catalogue accompanying The Sunday Times [London] of 8 January 1989, is illustrated by a photograph of the device with the following display:


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