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:

  • A chilling story about an American man's murder of his mail-order wife exposes the dark side of the hired-bride industry.

  • Investors bought a brilliant company: Omnimedia--a Web site, mail-order operation, two TV shows, two magazines, Kmart partnership, and 27 books--netted $24 million last year from the gospel of Martha.

  • 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.

  • The Quill ruling protects sellers of tangible personal property from state taxation if their contacts within the state are limited to mail-order catalogs, telephone, or the Internet.

  • It was subsequently supplanted by mass retailers in the form of department stores in large urban cities and by mail-order houses focused on smaller communities and rural markets.


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