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Milkman is an English word with synonyms like deliveryman or deliverer. Below you'll find 10+ example sentences showing how it's used in practice.

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Milkman in a sentence

Milkman meaning

  1. A man who delivers milk to households and sometimes businesses early in the morning.
  2. A black man who prefers dating white women.

Synonyms of Milkman

deliveryman delivery boy deliverer

Using Milkman

  • The main meaning on this page is: A man who delivers milk to households and sometimes businesses early in the morning. | A black man who prefers dating white women.
  • Useful related words include: deliveryman, delivery boy, deliverer.
  • In the example corpus, milkman often appears in combinations such as: the milkman, milkman said, as milkman.

Context around Milkman

  • Average sentence length in these examples: 23.5 words
  • Position in the sentence: 5 start, 12 middle, 3 end
  • Sentence types: 19 statements, 1 questions, 0 exclamations

Corpus analysis for Milkman

  • In this selection, "milkman" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 23.5 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
  • Around the word, jewish, wild, amnesiac, named, tasked and serving stand out and add context to how "milkman" is used.
  • Recognizable usage signals include a creepy milkman an older and a jewish milkman named tevye. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
  • By corpus frequency, "milkman" sits close to words such as abattoirs, aberrant and abike, which helps place it inside the broader word index.

Example types with milkman

The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:

Our milk was delivered by a milkman every other day or so. (12 words)

One day she was at the store when the milkman stopped by. (12 words)

Her parents were murdered by a wild Milkman, but everyone was blaming Ethel for the attack. (16 words)

Bock’s music cleverly accompanies a story by American playwright Joseph Stein of a Jewish milkman named Tevye, his wife, Golde, and their five daughters in the small town of Anatevka in the Pale of Settlement of Imperial Russia around 1905. (41 words)

She has a sort-of boyfriend, but the figure who looms largest in her life is a creepy milkman – an older, married man, rumoured to be a paedophile, who's deeply enmeshed in simmering neighbourhood tribalism. (36 words)

The former electrician and milkman said he was inspired to look for a small electric car after his son and daughter-in-law purchased a Tesla Model 3 last year. (30 words)

Who wants to see a musical about a Russian milkman marrying off his daughters before a pogrom? (17 words)

Example sentences (20)

Bock’s music cleverly accompanies a story by American playwright Joseph Stein of a Jewish milkman named Tevye, his wife, Golde, and their five daughters in the small town of Anatevka in the Pale of Settlement of Imperial Russia around 1905.

Her parents were murdered by a wild Milkman, but everyone was blaming Ethel for the attack.

The former electrician and milkman said he was inspired to look for a small electric car after his son and daughter-in-law purchased a Tesla Model 3 last year.

The show follows Anthony's John Doe, an amnesiac milkman tasked with safely transporting a package across a post-apocalyptic America.

In the run up to the 2019 election, we saw him driving a forklift truck through a wall, dressing up as a milkman, and pretending to hide in a fridge.

Our milk was delivered by a milkman every other day or so.

Robert Dilworth, a milkman serving the tower block in 1982, had his work cut out, spending up to an hour each day making deliveries to the residents.

Whether it was a grocery list for the milkman or legal documents, she believed in the power of having things in writing.

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After his first major appearance in 1957 British gangster film No Road Back, the former milkman became a Hollywood star as the first James Bond in 1962 film Dr No.

One day she was at the store when the milkman stopped by.

Social policing and sectarianism rule the day in Milkman, which won the Man Booker Prize in 2018, the first time a writer from Northern Ireland has done so.

There were gigs as a milkman, a truck driver, a labourer and, for a time, an artist's model for the Edinburgh College of Art.

Johnson himself seemed to be doing political panto, pretending to be baker, milkman, fisherman, digger driver, amongst others.

Kelvin Smith’s book, called Why Do I look like the milkman, Mam?, will be launched at 5.30pm on Thursday, November 28.

Mr Johnson played the role of milkman as his stunt-laden campaign tour entered its final hours today.

They were incapable of narratively altering the story of Superman, so they copied it, instead, creating Milkman Man.

Who wants to see a musical about a Russian milkman marrying off his daughters before a pogrom?

Head Coach Velvet Milkman said her team’s resilliency was on full display as other team’s tried to make a late charge for the title on Wednesday.

Milkman is the fourth novel to be written by Burns, who was born in Belfast in 1962.

She has a sort-of boyfriend, but the figure who looms largest in her life is a creepy milkman – an older, married man, rumoured to be a paedophile, who's deeply enmeshed in simmering neighbourhood tribalism.

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Common combinations with milkman

These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:

Frequently asked questions

How do you use "milkman" in a sentence?
An example: "Bock’s music cleverly accompanies a story by American playwright Joseph Stein of a Jewish milkman named Tevye, his wife, Golde, and their five daughters in the small town of Anatevka in the Pale of Settlement of Imperial Russia around 1905." This page contains 10+ example sentences with the word "milkman" from authentic English texts.
What does "milkman" mean?
Milkman means: A man who delivers milk to households and sometimes businesses early in the morning.
What are synonyms of "milkman"?
Common synonyms of "milkman" include: deliveryman, delivery boy, deliverer.
How many example sentences with "milkman" are there?
Voorbeeldzinnen.info contains at least 10+ example sentences with "milkman", drawn from a database of millions of English sentences.