letterbox
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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
Previously the company only accepted parcels small enough to fit through a letterbox.
From BBC ● Apr. 10, 2025
We went on standing in front of the door of the suite, and I noticed that the daily paper was still thrust through the letterbox.
From "Rebecca" by Daphne du Maurier
Not to ward off angry voters - she says she doesn't recognise the collapse in Labour's national popularity - but to poke leaflets through letterboxes without being bitten by dogs.
From BBC ● Apr. 10, 2025
They told the BBC they had been advised by police to work from home, board up office windows and install fireproof letterboxes.
From BBC ● Aug. 6, 2024
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 Brandes, Georg Morris Cohen
