letterbox
Example Sentences
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"I was doing a round I was unfamiliar with. The dog had managed to get its snout right into the letterbox. He heard me coming down the path. There was no noise," she recalls.
From BBC
Sarah thinks all dog owners should put up warning signs outside their homes - and have either a separate external letterbox, or a cage for mail attached inside the front door.
From BBC
The kit is small enough to fit through the letterbox and arrives in plain packaging through the post.
From BBC
So it came as a shock to Krieps when, a few years later, she opened up her letterbox to find a script from Kreutzer.
From Seattle Times
“In Europe, you don’t really have this. We don’t have this celebrity culture and how you are seen from the public suddenly because you’re an actor. I felt this a lot when I was in the U.S. my first time. How it was almost like a pressure that I had to perform now — to be the actress. So when I came back and the script was in my letterbox, I started crying, because I realized that, ‘This is exactly what I’ve just lived in a small way.’
From Los Angeles Times
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.