business envelope
Americannoun
Example Sentences
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Editors recently opened an "official business" envelope from the Navy Department, pulled out two pages of poetry under the title Pacifism, by one Archibald Hopkins.*
From Time Magazine Archive
With a hyphenated surname, she would no longer fit into the window of a business envelope.
From "The Namesake" by Jhumpa Lahiri
She crossed the room again to straighten the stack of books on his lamp table, and was doing so when a pamphlet the size of a business envelope caught her eye.
From "Go Set a Watchman: A Novel" by Harper Lee
How often she had dreamed of the small business envelope, addressed in an unfamiliar hand, which might one day appear there!
From A Bookful of Girls by Anna Fuller
It was an ordinary missive, in business envelope, addressed to Lieutenant Sanford Ray, Fort Minneconjou, and it had been opened.
From A Soldier's Trial An Episode of the Canteen Crusade by Charles King
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