How to Use postman in a Sentence

postman

noun

• Then a few weeks go by and the postman brings the rods to my door.
  — Star Tribune, 30 July 2020
• The small postman loses the vivid red streaks on its hind wings.
  — Ed Yong, The Atlantic, 18 Sep. 2017
• His father was a postman, and his mother worked in linen mills.
  — Neil Genzlinger, New York Times, 11 Oct. 2019
• None has come to mean more to me than the postman wearing a white pith helmet.
  — Elaine Ayala, ExpressNews.com, 19 Sep. 2020
• The postman will stop you for a chat, and people will remember your kids’ names.
  — Alli Forde, Travel + Leisure, 8 June 2026
• The notes were sent out with divers who made an 11-hour, back-and-forth journey to act as postmen.
  — Washington Post, 8 July 2018
• The notes were sent out with divers who made an 11-hour, back-and-forth journey to act as postmen.
  — Fox News, 7 July 2018
• My postman is sometimes a postwoman, taking over the route for for a few days.
  — Beth Thames | [email protected], al, 26 Aug. 2020
• But this Texas postman deserves a standing ovation from us all.
  — Southern Living, 8 Aug. 2017
• Hass made only about $4k from his share of the crops, and worked as a postman till his death at age 60.
  — thehustle.co, 5 Apr. 2024
• But like Wolf’s crows, the cydno longwing and postman prefer to mate with their own kind.
  — Quanta Magazine, 5 Aug. 2014
• But putting Kit’s face on the envelope might be a bit of a giveaway, at least for postmen across the country.
  — Megan McCluskey, Time, 30 Apr. 2018
• The country postman drove along an empty road through a corridor of trees fringed by wildflowers.
  — John Carlisle, Freep.com, 4 Sep. 2022
• The cydno longwing is black with white or yellow markings, and the postman is black with red and yellow markings.
  — Quanta Magazine, 5 Aug. 2014
• The postman, the fireman, the policeman and clerk at the convenience store, the ladies at the dry cleaner.
  — Kyle Ringo, San Antonio Express-News, 27 May 2018
• In the third row is an exceptionally tall young man, still wearing his postman’s uniform.
  — Literary Hub, 20 May 2026
• These guys included a teacher, a postman, a tour guide, and a factory worker.
  — National Geographic, 5 June 2016
• Don, who grew up in Hartford, became a postman after serving three years in the Army.
  — M.a.c. Lynch, courant.com, 18 Feb. 2018
• Mules were so profitable that everyone in Plano, even the barber and the postman, took to trading them.
  — Dallas News, 23 Mar. 2020
• The inventor’s improved design engaged the circuit when the postman opened the box.
  — IEEE Spectrum, 8 Aug. 2018
• Lydia often pauses in the vestibule between the first and second door to inspect the packages that the postman has dropped.
  — Leslie Kendall Dye, Longreads, 10 Aug. 2020
• Spending all day bringing other people their mail, the postman probably never gets any of his own mail, the child thought.
  — Marlisse Cepeda, Woman's Day, 11 Mar. 2015
• Not just the postman and the barber, but also the aspiring belly dancer, the night clipper, the cat looser, and all the rest.
  — Ian Bogost, The Atlantic, 20 June 2018
• Two postmen came every day; the one from the South generally came earlier.
  — Colm Tóibín, The New York Review of Books, 4 Apr. 2026
• Each day Julia watched for the postman to deliver the mail, his hand on the outboard motor steering him toward the dock.
  — Jennifer Gilmore, Harper’s Magazine , 13 Mar. 2023
• Katja introduced her to an English guy who was dressed, for some reason, in a Weimar-era postman’s uniform.
  — Hari Kunzru, The New Yorker, 29 June 2020
• This is the dramatic moment a postman came face-to-face with a shark while snorkeling off the coast of Cornwall, England.
  — People Staff, PEOPLE.com, 16 Aug. 2021
• His father, William, was a postman, and his mother, Mary (Maggin) Carson, worked in linen mills.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 10 Oct. 2019
• Boy Scouts marched, as did fraternities, high-school classes, postmen, and newspaper columnists.
  — Zach Helfand, New Yorker, 12 Aug. 2025
• Her father, Frank Bunker, dabbled in poetry and served as a Sauk Centre postman.
  — Curt Brown, Star Tribune, 27 Mar. 2021