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letterbox

[let-er-boks] / ˈlɛt ərˌbɒks /


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A woman is shouting through a letterbox to friends inside a house: "The pastor is here, I promise you it is safe."

From BBC Jun. 12, 2026

I speak to the woman who is shouting through the letterbox of a house with smashed windows.

From BBC Jun. 12, 2026

He told the court that, on one occasion, protestors put flares through HKETO's letterbox.

From BBC Mar. 23, 2026

Both take cash - the honesty box has envelopes and a letterbox for change.

From BBC Nov. 8, 2025

By a strange coincidence—or maybe not—he looks eerily like he does on YouTube, since his voluminous scarf and ski hat cover his face everywhere except the letterbox view from eyes to lower lip.

From "Linked" by Gordon Korman

She said her mum told her "the money's not yours" and blocked her number, before later claiming in court it had been posted through the girls' letterboxes.

From BBC Jun. 7, 2025

She and others have been leafleting ultra-Orthodox households across Israel - more than a million flyers have been put through letterboxes.

From BBC Sep. 22, 2022

Well, Richards became famous in 2001, when he began posting polite notices through the letterboxes of apostrophe abusers, “drawing your attention to an incorrect use which has been pointed out to us”.

From The Guardian Dec. 2, 2019

Nobody’s going to flay you to death just for barking offers of money through the letterboxes of recently bereaved parents, or trawling for offensive tweets with your free hand.

From The Guardian Dec. 22, 2018

For I could not help laughing at the idea that even the letterboxes had to enjoy their Sabbath rest.

From Recollections of My Childhood and Youth by Georg Morris Cohen Brandes




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