Example Sentences

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A joke’s provenance doesn’t matter when the deliverer can’t sell it, and a better comedian would have refused to say these words and instead gone rogue.

From Salon • Jan. 8, 2024

The premise is that each co-host writes jokes that the other hasn’t seen and has to perform, no matter how offensive the joke or how bad it makes the joke deliverer.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 17, 2023

Others would look like shifty politicos; he would remain the jovial deliverer of cheer.

From Washington Post • Jul. 8, 2022

Bovain, a furniture deliverer, his girlfriend and one of his younger brothers had made a spur-of-the-moment decision to see Carnival, said another brother, James Bovain.

From Seattle Times • Mar. 2, 2022

By the time the sun had set behind the Sunset Towers parking lot, Otis Amber, deliverer, had completed his rounds.

From "The Westing Game" by Ellen Raskin