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:

  • Indeed, the adoption of these distribution innovations parallels the emergence of department stores and mail-order houses a century earlier.

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

  • During the first quarter of the century, the beauty industry advanced new sales techniques emphasizing personal contact: door-to-door and mail-order marketing, beauty schools and correspondence courses, lines of cosmetics tied to salons.

  • 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:

  • 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.


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