How to Use postmaster in a Sentence
postmaster
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Averell was a postmaster, a notary public and a justice of the peace.
—Eliza McGraw, Smithsonian, 12 Mar. 2018
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Jeannie wrote to a postmaster, and Tom to a high-school sports director.
—Kristina Rizga, The Atlantic, 9 Sep. 2020
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Some of the postmaster’s fiercest critics praised the announcement.
—Jacob Bogage, Washington Post, 20 Dec. 2022
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Then Alexander Purdie, the postmaster at the time, bought him.
—Patricia R. Olsen, New York Times, 8 June 2018
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The home of the postmaster was the only private residence destroyed.
—Kelly Kazek, AL.com, 25 Aug. 2017
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So, the postmaster suggested Santa Claus, and the name stuck.
—CBS News, 12 Dec. 2021
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In fact, postmasters paid to run ads in local papers listing who had letters to collect so those people would retrieve them.
—Andrea Valdez, The Atlantic, 28 Apr. 2024
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Authorities initially looked into a truck driver and a postmaster, but both were dead ends.
—Caroline Blair, PEOPLE, 1 June 2026
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This helps the postmaster easily determine where to deliver your mail.
—Sophia Beams, Better Homes & Gardens, 20 May 2026
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The first customer to taste this new concoction happened to be Henry Radaz, the city’s postmaster.
—Richard A. Marini, San Antonio Express-News, 8 Nov. 2021
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The postmaster’s library is now a ballroom, and the mail sorting room houses Dirty Habit, a stylish bar and restaurant.
—Lindsay Cohn, Travel + Leisure, 4 July 2023
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Turning them in, maxing your inventory and postmaster and sorting through rolls is not exactly a speedy process, so don’t leave this to the last minute.
—Paul Tassi, Forbes, 27 Jan. 2022
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Move items to and from your vault, between characters, from the postmaster, search with filters, even create loadouts with this desktop and mobile tool.
—Paul Tassi, Forbes, 11 Oct. 2022
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De La Garza is Duke’s postmaster, in charge of the incoming and outgoing mail on campus.
—Scott Gleeson, USA TODAY, 5 Mar. 2022
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Armand, the son of the village postmaster, is tasked to deliver Vincent’s last letter to Theo.
—Jackie Mansky, Smithsonian, 20 Feb. 2018
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The local area postmaster must approve the removal and must post a sign on the box for 30 days with an address and phone number so the public can make comments.
—USA Today, 31 Aug. 2020
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In Oregon, the problem was that while Hayes won the popular vote and thus the state’s three electors, one of them was a county postmaster.
—Ron Grossman, chicagotribune.com, 25 Sep. 2020
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Grove appealed on First Amendment grounds, and a federal court reversed the postmaster’s ruling.
—Louis Menand, New Yorker, 1 June 2026
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Ray Collier, the city’s postmaster, has lived there since 1934 and remains skeptical.
—Miami Herald, 21 Jan. 2025
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The town was called Travilah, and it was named after the first postmaster, though not in the way that Answer Man expected.
—Washington Post, 3 Oct. 2020
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His ears heard an unusual beeping sound coming from a house on his route — which happened to belong to the mother of his boss, the Waterloo postmaster.
—Travis Deshong, Washington Post, 1 Nov. 2019
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The town’s old post office provides desks for writing letters to Santa; each note is thoughtfully answered by the postmaster and mailed back before the big day.
—Abigail Wilt, Southern Living, 23 Nov. 2024
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My mother was a prairie princess, the only child of a school superintendent who doubled as a postmaster, from a tiny town in North Dakota.
—Peter Schjeldahl, The New Yorker, 16 Dec. 2019
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As Macroon, the film’s narrator and the island’s widowed postmaster, Gregor Fisher leads a cast that’s ill-served by the musty script.
—Jeannette Catsoulis, New York Times, 11 May 2017
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The body of the postmaster, Ginger Ballard, 53, was found lying between two vehicles.
—CBS News, 24 Dec. 2017
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After postmaster Richard Zamora approved the project, Anderson was the obvious artist for the job.
—News Release, San Diego Union-Tribune, 17 May 2025
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Geology students helped collect about 100 kilograms of Murchison, and a local postmaster mailed pieces of it to labs across the world.
—Joshua Sokol, Science | AAAS, 13 Aug. 2020
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Five years ago, before the board nominated DeJoy as its 75th postmaster, stamps cost 50 cents.
—Jenny Goldsberry, Washington Examiner - Political News and Conservative Analysis About Congress, the President, and the Federal Government, 25 Mar. 2025
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On 9 November 1960, the postmaster sent the first Speed Mail letter.
—IEEE Spectrum, 12 Nov. 2020
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The folks who knew her were outraged and more than 200 merchants and residents in Baltimore sent the postmaster a petition asking to keep her in place.
—Petula Dvorak, Alaska Dispatch News, 4 July 2017
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