deliveryman

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

|Updated on: 8 Jun 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

The App Store invented a new world, where chauffeurs, dates, and deliverymen could be summoned with a few taps; but also where our attention could be shattered, our democracy shaken, and our anxiety spiked.

— arielle pardes, WIRED, "Tech Addiction and the Paradox of Apple's 'Screen Time' Tools," 5 June 2018
Early on the morning March 23, 2010, Rockwell and a group of co-conspirators killed store clerk Daniel Rojas and deliveryman Jerry Burnett, according to court records.

— keri blakinger, Houston Chronicle, "Execution dates set for two convicted killers from Tarrant County," 16 May 2018
The mystery begins with the murder of Brian Wells, a middle-aged deliveryman who was killed by an explosive collar strapped to his neck as part of a plot involving a bank robbery and scavenger hunt.

— patrick ryan, USA TODAY, "Duplass Brothers on their new memoir, and Netflix's new true-crime obsession 'Evil Genius'," 10 May 2018
Certain faces stood out: a one-eyed doorman, a tea deliveryman with a broken nose, a shopkeeper who liked talking to the twins in Arabic.

— rachel aviv, The New Yorker, "Cairo: A Type of Love Story," 30 Apr. 2018
Valentinetti / May 18 Then a student and pizza deliveryman, Sal Valentinetti made his way into the limelight in 2016 by channeling Frank Sinatra on Season 11 of NBC’s America’s Got Talent.

— BostonGlobe.com, "Things to do in Greater Boston this spring," 30 Mar. 2018
At the beginning of the winter, coal deliverymen make the rounds.

— maciek nabrdalik and marc santora, New York Times, "Smothered by Smog, Polish Cities Rank Among Europe’s Dirtiest," 22 Apr. 2018
An anonymous researcher recently posted a video that showed how a deliveryman could temporarily disable an Amazon Key security camera and enter a customer’s home unrecorded.

— john burnett, WSJ, "Give Jeff Bezos the Mark Zuckerberg Treatment," 15 Apr. 2018
Elshinawy’s lawyers portrayed him as the least successful member of his family, a struggling newspaper deliveryman who lacked the grit to carry out an attack.

— ian duncan, baltimoresun.com, "Terror plotter from Edgewood who took ISIS money for attack sentenced to 20 years," 30 Mar. 2018

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