MAIL in a Sentence

Learn MAIL from example sentences; some of them are from classic books. These examples are selected from a corpus with 300,000 sentences, including classic works and current mainstream media. Some sentences also link to their contexts.
78 example sentences for MAIL, such as:
1. We do our business by mail.
2. Air mail is quicker than sea mail.
3. If you can get me some, don't mail them.
4. She was inundated by floods of fan mail.
5. I'll forward any mail to your new address.
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Animal Farm by George Orwell
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 Meanings and Examples of MAIL
mail
 n.  the system whereby messages are transmitted via the post office
 v.  send via the postal service
Classic Sentence: (43 in 3 pages)
1  Here along Peachtree Street and near-by streets were the headquarters of the various army departments, each office swarming with uniformed men, the commissary, the signal corps, the mail service, the railway transport, the provost marshal.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VIII
2  But it was the part she did not read that tormented Scarlett, that drove her to surreptitious reading of her sister-in-law's mail.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XI
3  After all, she wasn't reading Melanie's mail to learn Ashley's puzzling and uninteresting ideas.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XI
4  No pang of conscience at loving another woman's husband or reading that woman's mail disturbed her pleasure in her youth and charm and her renewed assurance of Ashley's love.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XI
5  If you can get me some, don't mail them.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XIV
6  The telegraph wires were still, no trains came in on the one remaining railroad from the south and the mail service was broken.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XX
7  The mail service in the South was uncertain and in the rural districts there was none at all.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXIX
8  She did not know if the lack of mail service was the cause, or if he had merely trifled with her affections and then forgotten her.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXIX
9  He was in flexible mail, and under the rim of his planished morion were amorous curls.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XVII
10  There were days when the town was completely shut off, when they had no mail, no express, no fresh meat, no newspapers.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XIX
11  Every mail I look for a letter, and when I get one I'm kind of scared to open it, I'm hoping so much that you're coming back.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXVIII
12  I had never heard the postmaster say anything but 'Only papers, to-day,' or, 'I've got a sackful of mail for ye,' until this afternoon.
My Antonia By Willa Cather
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1. The Shimerdas: XV
13  Even on Sundays she went to the office to open the mail and read the markets.
My Antonia By Willa Cather
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2. The Hired Girls: II
14  It used a carload of paper every week, and the mail trains would be hours loading up at the depot of the little Kansas town.
The Jungle By Upton Sinclair
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 30
15  Manifestly not, since some work is easy and some hard, and we should have millions of rural mail carriers, and no coal miners.
The Jungle By Upton Sinclair
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 31
Example Sentence: (35 in 3 pages)
1  I'll forward any mail to your new address.
2  She left her address with a request that any mail should be sent on to her.
3  Air mail is quicker than sea mail.
4  The secretary has a large amount of mail to answer every day.
5  The toys are available by mail order from Opi Toys.
6  No one can open mail except the person to whom it has been addressed.
7  Okay, okay, okay, um yeah I know I had to mail them out.
8  We do our business by mail.
9  I stopped in at work on the way home to check my mail.
10  The post office has promised to resume first class mail delivery to the area on Friday.
11  This is currently the most efficient way to transmit certain types of data like electronic mail.
12  If we want to send something to another department, we use the internal mail.
13  Ed was snowed under with fan mail when he was doing his television show.
14  She was inundated by floods of fan mail.
15  She prefers to answer any fan mail herself for a more personal touch.