inbox

noun

in·​box ˈin-ˌbäks 

variants or in-box

plural inboxes or in-boxes

1

: a box or tray (as on a desk) for holding incoming interoffice mail

2

: a computer folder devoted to incoming email

One of my favorite rituals soon became scanning our email inbox, looking for your photographs … and reading the letters you sent …

—Amy Virshup

Examples of inbox in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

Get the Robb Report newsletter for similar stories delivered straight to your inbox. —Mark David, Robb Report, 15 Apr. 2024

Sign up to get our Trump Trials newsletter in your email inbox. —Washington post Staff, Washington Post, 15 Apr. 2024

Sign up here to get stories like this sent to your inbox. —Philip Elliott, TIME, 15 Apr. 2024

And here’s today’s e-newspaper Start your day right Sign up for Essential California for news, features and recommendations from the L.A. Times and beyond in your inbox six days a week. —Andrew J. Campa, Los Angeles Times, 14 Apr. 2024

Want a link to your daily horoscope delivered directly to your inbox each weekday morning? —Eugenia Last, The Mercury News, 14 Apr. 2024

Subscribe to our weekly newsletter, In The Know, to get entertainment news sent straight to your inbox. —Lisa Kennedy, The Denver Post, 12 Apr. 2024

Read more Subscribe now to get Fox News Politics newsletter in your inbox. —Fox News Staff, Fox News, 12 Apr. 2024

Subscribe to Pitchfork’s New Music Friday newsletter to get our recommendations in your inbox every week. —Madison Bloom, Pitchfork, 12 Apr. 2024

Word History

First Known Use

1958, in the meaning defined at sense 1