How to Use return address in a Sentence
return address
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Want a return address on the envelope?
—Julia Harrison, Architectural Digest, 15 Dec. 2025
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In the hope that the balloons would be returned, the makers included a return address and a reward.
—Alyssa Davis, PEOPLE, 27 Nov. 2025
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View with skepticism those nonprofits that send you pens and flags and return address labels and writing pads in the mail.
—Teri Sforza, Oc Register, 26 Nov. 2025
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Put your return address in the upper lefthand corner, and affix a stamp on the upper righthand corner.
—Marla Jo Fisher, Oc Register, 20 May 2026
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The return address was from California, and the sender wasn't familiar to me.
—CBS News, 5 Dec. 2025
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The return address was in Kamloops, British Columbia.
—Bjorn Dihle, Outdoor Life, 4 Sep. 2025
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The inspection service recommends that unwanted packages be returned to the sender, if a return address is available.
—Laura Daniella Sepulveda, AZCentral.com, 15 Aug. 2025
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The note said the mail could be indicated by discoloration, powder emanating from the envelope and postmarks that do not match the return address.
—Eric McDaniel, NPR, 15 Oct. 2026
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Investigators found the return address on the letters to be Unglesbee's, according to the court records.
—ABC News, 26 Oct. 2026
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His office confirmed in a statement that the letter had the same return address as the other letters received by other officials on Thursday.
—Gustavo Atencio Flores, CBS News, 16 Oct. 2026
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Investigators believe more than 700 mailings this fall appeared to be associated with the same sender but with a different return address.
—Ed White, Chicago Tribune, 3 Nov. 2026
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One afternoon, Briggs drove to the return address that Berthia's mom had written on the envelope, introduced himself and told her about the upcoming ceremony.
—Johnny Dodd, People.com, 24 Aug. 2025
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The return address listed on the flyers names a company, Transgender Student Union LLC.
—Brian New, CBS News, 22 Oct. 2026
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This is a full WYSIWYG control over how your email looks, including fonts, return address (which doesn't have to be the same as the sending email), and signature.
—Alison Barretta, PC Magazine, 28 June 2024
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It was addressed to an AJC employee and, like the Holocaust Memorial letter, included Charles’ name on the handwritten return address.
—Zoey Thomas, Sun Sentinel, 10 Nov. 2026
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The return address lists the Texas Transgender Student Union, an organization that appears to have no website, social media presence, or any other online footprint.
—Brian New, CBS News, 21 Oct. 2026
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What readers are saying The comments discuss a case involving a person who sent letters containing a suspicious substance, with many commenters criticizing the individual's intelligence for including his return address.
—Violet Jira, Washington Post, 26 Oct. 2026
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Notably, in addition to the error in the facility name in the return address and the mail apparently being processed after Epstein’s death, the postmark also shows the letter being mailed from Northern Virginia, not New York.
—Kase Wickman, Vanity Fair, 23 Dec. 2025
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They were addressed to Texas students, purporting to be a resource guide for LGBTQ+ students as young as kindergarten, with the Texas Transgender Student Union listed on the return address.
—Kelsy Mittauer, CBS News, 22 Oct. 2026
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Mulzet reads an excerpt from Herscht 07769, which takes its title from the protagonist’s decision to write German Chancellor Angela Merkel a letter using only his name and postcode as a return address.
—Fiction Non Fiction, Literary Hub, 6 Nov. 2025
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In April 2025, Vaden allegedly received an anonymous letter at her home bearing the Elk Grove Police Department’s return address that discussed Davis’ relationship with the subordinate.
—Camryn Dadey, Sacbee.com, 19 June 2026
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An executive of American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) later that month received the same letter to their previous home address in Palm Beach County, although without the return address.
—Zoey Thomas, Sun Sentinel, 10 Nov. 2026
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