How to Use airmail in a Sentence

airmail

noun
  • The package was sent by airmail.
  • Anyone who plays pickup ball knows the guy whose full-court, behind-the-back heave airmails you at least once per game.
    — Matt Calkins, The Seattle Times, 26 Aug. 2017
  • But that didn’t stop an ambitious thief from crating himself up and shipping himself airmail.
    — Steve Hendrix, Washington Post, 24 May 2017
  • Those packages, whether by sea or airmail, arrived with the holiday aroma intact.
    — cleveland, 20 Dec. 2021
  • This can be achieved by bouncing the bag over the blocker or by throwing an airmail, a bag that goes into the hole without touching the board.
    — Jen Murphy, WSJ, 2 Feb. 2020
  • Few persons realize it, but a transatlantic airmail route already is in operation and has been for about two years.
    — W. Irving Glover, Popular Mechanics, 6 May 2021
  • Charles Lindbergh flew airmail from it before making the first solo flight across the Atlantic.
    — The Economist, 30 Dec. 2020
  • Here are our lessons learned from years of transatlantic trips, Skype sessions, and airmail sent, just in time for Valentine's Day.
    — Laura Dannen Redman, Condé Nast Traveler, 14 Feb. 2018
  • The post office has always been able to adapt to technological change — from the Pony Express to the advent of airmail.
    — Star Tribune, 1 June 2021
  • Jet needed great pictures every week; Williams supplied his editors with film via airmail envelopes and turned his passion into a career.
    — Cecil Williams, National Geographic, 16 Sep. 2020
  • The ride is far worse in a vehicle bouncing over the rough landscapes of Earth’s backcountry, and sending samples via airmail is quite expensive.
    — Carl Engelking, Discover Magazine, 29 July 2015
  • Still, terrorists managed to acquire plastic explosives and the components needed to set it off—all shipped by airmail from Turkey.
    — Ahmet S. Yayla, WSJ, 9 Aug. 2017
  • Soon the Post Office Department lobbied Congress to fund an airmail service.
    — Eric Tegler, Popular Mechanics, 9 May 2018
  • Over the next decade, Wold-Chamberlain Field expanded on the property in tandem with an airmail route to Chicago.
    — Janet Moore, Star Tribune, 28 May 2021
  • America’s commercial aviation industry, in fact, owes its existence to airmail.
    — Adam Cohen, Smithsonian, 18 May 2018
  • Much like the stamps issued to celebrate its launch, the first airmail service—supported by Army planes and pilots, as no commercial airlines were in operation at the time—didn’t go quite as planned.
    — Meilan Solly, Smithsonian Magazine, 14 Nov. 2023
  • Team BlackSheep is doing something practical for once, by sending airmail by drone over the Swiss Alps, a distance of 100km.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 24 Jan. 2023
  • While dedicated airmail began 150 years ago, flights for both cargo and passengers became more plentiful and the postal service threw envelopes and parcels onto cross-country flights.
    — Caroline Delbert, Popular Mechanics, 24 Mar. 2020
  • June and Greg Siple corresponded with sponsors, family and friends by airmail, collecting general-delivery letters at post offices along the way.
    — Washington Post, 13 Jan. 2022
  • Staff found and destroyed eight of the erroneous sheets and shipped the other stamps to offices in Washington, New York and Philadelphia—the cities selected for the first airmail flights.
    — Meilan Solly, Smithsonian Magazine, 14 Nov. 2023
  • Pilots across America are flying the original transcontinental airmail route for its 100th anniversary.
    — Caroline Delbert, Popular Mechanics, 9 Sep. 2020
  • Homing pigeons can return to their lofts from more than a thousand miles away, a navigational prowess that has been admired for ages; five millennia ago, the Egyptians used them, like owls at Hogwarts, as a kind of early airmail.
    — Kathryn Schulz, The New Yorker, 29 Mar. 2021
  • The stamp was printed all the way back in 1918, to commemorate the beginning of regular airmail service, The Washington Post noted.
    — Tori Latham, Robb Report, 15 Nov. 2023
  • The team beat Ghana, allowed a stoppage-time equalizer to Portugal, lost to the eventual champion Germany and was a Wondo airmail away from reaching the quarterfinal.
    — Andrew Joseph, USA TODAY, 12 Oct. 2017
  • Inside were nearly 1,000 documents — letters, fragile airmail pages, official papers written in German, French and Dutch.
    — Andrew Silow-Carroll, Sun Sentinel, 28 Apr. 2026
  • Former Army pilot Eddie Hubbard then approached Boeing about pivoting to air mail with a route between Seattle and British Columbia, the first international airmail service in North America.
    — John Pacenti, USA Today, 15 Apr. 2026

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