Example Sentences

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The bicycle remained an essential part of Rwandan life, from competitive city teams to weekday commuters to deliverymen pedaling tall cans of milk over cratered dirt roads.

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 10, 2025

The two boys, aged 2 and 4, romped through the labyrinth of La Soledad, under lines of drying laundry, past deliverymen pushing stacked handcarts and carpenters hammering away at tottering structures.

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 26, 2025

As Cho's script explains in the expository dump that is the opening episode, deliverymen are highly skilled fighters-for-hire, able to outrun or fend off marauding bands of hunters.

From Salon • May 13, 2023

In its absence, people buy gallons of water from deliverymen like Wissam al-Talawi, who took the only job he could find to support his family.

From Washington Post • Oct. 6, 2022

“On top of everything else you let those deliverymen carrying bread and beer tromp all over the store?”

From "The Milagro Beanfield War" by John Nichols