Examples of mail order in a Sentence
You can purchase the books by mail order.
The store sent out all its mail orders in time for the holiday.
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Sometimes, instead of a new iPad, the thief might swipe a mail order of medicine.
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Brittney Melton, NPR, 31 Dec. 2025
Burdines opened an international mail order program to Latin America in the late 1940s, allowing military personnel stationed in Cuba to put orders in with Burdines and resulting in a spike of popularity.
—Kaitlyn Yarborough, Southern Living, 16 Nov. 2025
About 90% of prescriptions Americans fill at the pharmacy or via mail order are generic drugs.
—Ken Alltucker, USA Today, 26 Sep. 2025
Ottolenghi runs restaurants, operates a test kitchen, and sells products through mail order.
—Dan Kois, New Yorker, 17 Sep. 2025
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Brittney Melton, NPR, 31 Dec. 2025
Burdines opened an international mail order program to Latin America in the late 1940s, allowing military personnel stationed in Cuba to put orders in with Burdines and resulting in a spike of popularity.
—Kaitlyn Yarborough, Southern Living, 16 Nov. 2025
About 90% of prescriptions Americans fill at the pharmacy or via mail order are generic drugs.
—Ken Alltucker, USA Today, 26 Sep. 2025
Ottolenghi runs restaurants, operates a test kitchen, and sells products through mail order.
—Dan Kois, New Yorker, 17 Sep. 2025
See All Example Sentences for mail order
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“Mail order.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/mail%20order. Accessed 7 Jan. 2026.
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