Explore Mailman through 10+ example sentences from English, with an explanation of the meaning and related words like postman or carrier. Ideal for language learners, writers and word enthusiasts.
Mailman in a sentence
Mailman meaning
Someone who delivers mail to, and/or collects mail from, residential or commercial addresses, or from public mailboxes.
Synonyms of Mailman
Using Mailman
- The main meaning on this page is: Someone who delivers mail to, and/or collects mail from, residential or commercial addresses, or from public mailboxes.
- Useful related words include: postman, mail carrier, letter carrier, carrier.
- In the example corpus, mailman often appears in combinations such as: the mailman, mailman is, mailman school.
Context around Mailman
- Average sentence length in these examples: 22.8 words
- Position in the sentence: 5 start, 9 middle, 6 end
- Sentence types: 18 statements, 2 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Mailman
- In this selection, "mailman" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 22.8 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, may, gave, lela, served, told and school stand out and add context to how "mailman" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include and the mailman that never and as a mailman tomorrow. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "mailman" sits close to words such as abbeys, abundances and aced, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with mailman
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
Mailman, 76, and Gillespie, 80, were acquitted on Jan. (9 words)
Floyd Martin retires after nearly 35 years as a mailman tomorrow. (11 words)
May Mailman is a senior fellow at Independent Women’s Law Center. (12 words)
The "four-legged fan" "had a great time listening to her favorite songs, including 'Barx AEterna,' 'Master of Puppies' and 'The Mailman That Never Comes" -- tongue-in-cheek references to some of the band's most well-known songs. (39 words)
When he's not writing about movies or television, Philip can be found being chased by his three kids, telling his dogs to stop yelling at the mailman, or yelling about professional wrestling to his wife. (36 words)
Court records show that Christian Soto, a 22-year-old resident of Winnebago County, admitted to “taking out the mailman” on Garr’s front lawn just before he stabbed three more residents in another home. (35 words)
And it’s really a confirmation that I made the right choice, that I didn’t decide to be a doctor or a mailman or something, you know? (28 words)
Hello, do you know that the mailman is in possession of a lot of powerful & damning information? (17 words)
Example sentences (20)
And it’s really a confirmation that I made the right choice, that I didn’t decide to be a doctor or a mailman or something, you know?
Dalton says lawyers with Innocence Canada will represent the men during the hearing, adding that he suspects it was scheduled so quickly because Mailman is terminally ill.
May Mailman is a senior fellow at Independent Women’s Law Center.
One day, it was still early in the morning, the old woman was not waiting for the mailman as was her practice and costume.
The community paramedics gave Mailman about 20 purple bags, which he distributed.
The "four-legged fan" "had a great time listening to her favorite songs, including 'Barx AEterna,' 'Master of Puppies' and 'The Mailman That Never Comes" -- tongue-in-cheek references to some of the band's most well-known songs.
After all, it took some time and some fortune before Prine made the leap from mailman to singer/songwriter.
Court records show that Christian Soto, a 22-year-old resident of Winnebago County, admitted to “taking out the mailman” on Garr’s front lawn just before he stabbed three more residents in another home.
Gillespie served 21 years of his life sentence in prison and Mailman served 18.
Mailman, 76, and Gillespie, 80, were acquitted on Jan.
Mailman told the judges the case was sufficiently resolved in district court to allow appeal.
The two girls lived in Farmington, New Mexico, a city bordering the Navajo Nation, and their mother, Lela Mailman, often had to work two or three jobs to make ends meet.
A study in Botswana by Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health scientists finds that spikes in cases of life-threatening diarrhea in young children are associated with La Niña climate conditions.
Lorraine Breffni, the executive director of Early Childhood at Nova Southeastern University’s University School Mailman Segal Center, said that all ages of children will have questions about face coverings.
She comes across her friendly local mailman Tom, who immediately believes her story and wants to help her escape.
The mailman quickly looped his belt around the man’s bleeding arm, wrapping it as tightly as he could and held it there.
Twitter user Rex Chapman shared this video of a little girl who dances with the mailman, and it will make your day.
When he's not writing about movies or television, Philip can be found being chased by his three kids, telling his dogs to stop yelling at the mailman, or yelling about professional wrestling to his wife.
Floyd Martin retires after nearly 35 years as a mailman tomorrow.
Hello, do you know that the mailman is in possession of a lot of powerful & damning information?
Common combinations with mailman
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- the mailman 10×
- mailman is 4×
- mailman school 4×
- mailman and 3×
- as mailman 3×
- mailman or 2×
- mailman with 2×