deliveryman

noun de·liv·ery·man \ -v(ə-)rē-mən , -ˌman \

|Updated on: 3 Aug 2018

Examples: deliveryman in a Sentence

Definition of deliveryman

: a person who delivers wholesale or retail goods to customers usually over a regular local route

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Examples of deliveryman in a Sentence

the deliveryman dropped off a package for us while we were at the store

Recent Examples of deliveryman from the Web

At one point, a Domino’s deliveryman walked into the room.

— adrian chen, The New Yorker, "Ice Poseidon’s Lucrative, Stressful Life as a Live Streamer," 8 Dec. 2014
At the Brooklyn Army base, a guard called ICE on a pizza deliveryman married to an American citizen with two daughters, putting him up for deportation; after which area restaurants started refusing to deliver to the base.

— mari uyehara, GQ, "Blacklist Every Last One of Them," 26 June 2018
Inconveniently, José is both the best player on the team and Steve’s best bicycle deliveryman.

— jim mckay, New York Times, "Review: In ‘En el Séptimo Día,’ He Wants to Work and Play. What Will He Do?," 7 June 2018
Corey Williams pleaded guilty Monday to manslaughter and obstruction of justice in the death of pizza deliveryman Jarvis Griffin, who was shot in 1998.

— Fox News, "The Latest: Agreement: false confession obstructed justice," 22 May 2018
Officials said deliveryman Pablo Villavicencio was detained June 1 after a routine background check at the garrison’s gate revealed there was a warrant for his arrest for immigration law violations.

— Washington Post, "Governor asks for federal probe of detained pizza man," 9 June 2018
An Amazon deliveryman from Texas is going viral after his adorable act of obedience was caught on camera last week.

— meghan overdeep, Southern Living, "Adorable Amazon Deliveryman Helps Wife Hide Packages from Husband," 7 June 2018
According to BuzzFeed News, the guard asked for further identification, and when Villavicencio wasn’t able to provide it, the deliveryman was directed to get a daily pass.

— anne branigin, The Root, "A Pizza Man Brought Pies to a Brooklyn, NY, Military Base. Now He’s Facing Deportation," 7 June 2018
After the yobs fled, the Sun reported, Cumberbatch hugged the deliveryman from Deliveroo, a U.K. food-delivery service.

— the washington post, NOLA.com, "Actor Benedict Cumberbatch thwarts London mugging: report," 2 June 2018

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