Example Sentences

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“I ask the postmen in Spain to work to the maximum, morning, afternoon and night,” Feijóo said during a campaign rally in Murcia on Wednesday.

From Seattle Times • Jul. 18, 2023

Other professional groups, from barristers to postmen, also plan to hit the barricades in coming weeks to demand more pay read more .

From Reuters • Jun. 22, 2022

They’re policemen and grocers and postmen and doctors and nurses.

From New York Times • Feb. 15, 2022

"I often meet the postladies or postmen, sometimes they are the only people I see, even on an inhabited island."

From BBC • May 6, 2019

Some of them wore the uniforms of the jobs they’d had too: policemen, postmen, nurses, trolley conductors.

From "Prisoner B-3087" by Alan Gratz