Example sentences for: mailman

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

  • "Secretly euthanized Donner, Prancer, and Blitzen, so that some lucky mailman can look like a hero when he offers to 'help Santa deliver those packages.

  • A mailman stops me in the street--I'm not making this up--to expound his own deduction from Philip Roth's tale of family calamity, to wit, that without a clear sense of God, modern Americans are doomed to lose their bearings and society will go to hell.

  • biff to notify someone of incoming mail [named after the implementor's dog barked whenever the mailman came].

  • The mailman, it's true, has not yet read the novel, only the reviews, and our lively conversation (many skyward hand gestures) veers in theological directions alien to American Pastoral . But I cite the theological detour to show what is going on these days every time I pick up the phone or loll about on the springtime sidewalk.

  • Descended from light-skinned slaves who enjoyed a privileged position in the plantation hierarchy, the "black elite" continues to hoard access to its boarding schools, social events, and churches: "Why," asks one pedigreed lady, "would I be socializing with some caseworker or mailman who goes to NAACP events?"


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