Synonyms for letterbox


Grammar : Noun
Spell : let-er-boks
Phonetic Transcription : ˈlɛt ərˌbɒks


Définition of letterbox

  • As in letter box : noun mail box
Example sentences :
  • There must be a rural delivery, and if so, at the gate would be a letterbox.
  • Extract from : « The Rest Hollow Mystery » by Rebecca N. Porter
  • Putting pieces of folded brown paper in the letterbox for her.
  • Extract from : « Ulysses » by James Joyce
  • There was a letterbox at the corner, a foot from the older man's shoulder.
  • Extract from : « The Lifted Bandage » by Mary Raymond Shipman Andrews
  • The lid flew back, and we pressed forward, and each ran his hand down into the letterbox.
  • Extract from : « In the Fog » by Richard Harding Davis
  • That letter he dropped into the Pixley letterbox himself that night, and so was assured of its delivery.
  • Extract from : « Pearl of Pearl Island » by John Oxenham
  • Friend Fox thanked him very kindly, made himself very small, and was out of sight like a letter in a letterbox.
  • Extract from : « The Fairy Ring » by Various
  • Among them I expected to see a letterbox; but there was nothing that looked like despatches.
  • Extract from : « Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 67, No. 411, January 1850 » by Various
  • She had known Culpepper would come from the moment she dropped her note to him in the letterbox at the corner last night.
  • Extract from : « Selina » by George Madden Martin
  • It was almost two o'clock the next morning when he passed the letterbox at the trail to the Widow Miller's place.
  • Extract from : « Tales from the X-bar Horse Camp » by Will C. Barnes
  • The front door should have a knocker and a letterbox, and around both the door and the windows should be imitation framework.
  • Extract from : « What Shall We Do Now?: Five Hundred Games and Pastimes » by Dorothy Canfield Fisher

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