How to Use junk mail in a Sentence

junk mail

noun
  • The letter wasn’t just junk mail.
    — Daniella Gray, MSNBC Newsweek, 24 Sep. 2025
  • The whiffs on ball carriers piled up like junk mail at election time.
    — Bryce Miller, San Diego Union-Tribune, 23 Sep. 2023
  • But none of it would have been possible without that piece of junk mail.
    — Nicolas Vega, CNBC, 31 Mar. 2025
  • Most consumers assume these notices are junk mail and throw them away.
    — Washington Post, 29 Jan. 2020
  • Hoarding patients and a control group who didn’t hoard brought their junk mail to the lab.
    — Gail Steketee, Discover Magazine, 30 Mar. 2010
  • Then be sure to label all junk mail as spam; that helps the spam filter do a better job.
    — Steve Alexander, Star Tribune, 23 Aug. 2020
  • One additional way to cut paper waste is to opt out of junk mail.
    — Allison Chinchar, CNN, 3 Jan. 2021
  • Many of the form letters voters receive look like junk mail and aren't even read, this side says.
    — Stephen Koff, cleveland.com, 10 Jan. 2018
  • Begin by putting a stop to the incoming clutter, like junk mail.
    — Mary Cornetta, Better Homes & Gardens, 8 Jan. 2025
  • Paperless billing services help, as do services to opt out of junk mail.
    — New York Times, 6 July 2018
  • Toss junk mail and pamphlets older than five years from your desk, surfaces, and drawers.
    — Dominique Fluker, Essence, 21 Mar. 2024
  • The decline in junk mail was partly offset by a steep rise in package shipping.
    — Ryan Cooper, TheWeek, 11 Aug. 2020
  • Big Mama used the back of junk mail envelopes to balance her budget.
    — Michelle Singletary, Washington Post, 10 Jan. 2024
  • Tap or click for five inbox hacks, including ways to banish tracking and junk mail.
    — Kim Komando, USA TODAY, 11 June 2021
  • Everybody with a mailbox or email address receives their share of junk mail.
    — Dallas News, 23 May 2020
  • The cards came in plain white envelopes that confused some families who mistook them for junk mail.
    — Kristen Taketa, San Diego Union-Tribune, 9 July 2023
  • Aside from the annoyance of spam calls and junk mail, this was the year of the largest data breach in Texas.
    — Dave Lieber, Dallas News, 1 July 2021
  • For one thing, your state's lax attitude toward privacy could be adding to your pile of junk mail.
    — Annie White, Car and Driver, 4 Apr. 2020
  • But for many people, the texts come across as spam, the 2020 equivalent of junk mail.
    — NBC News, 29 Oct. 2020
  • The spam filter is already helping you; its contents are the junk mail that never made it to your inbox.
    — Steve Alexander, Star Tribune, 18 July 2021
  • Many people just don’t check their mail on a regular basis, or toss the census mailers aside as junk mail.
    — Dan Kopf, Quartz, 22 Apr. 2020
  • Junk Mail and Coupons Speaking of piles of paper, be sure to deal with your junk mail, too.
    — Sarah Lyon, Southern Living, 9 June 2026
  • Junk Mail and Coupons Speaking of piles of paper, be sure to deal with your junk mail, too.
    — Sarah Lyon, Southern Living, 22 Jan. 2026
  • For years, postage on letters and junk mail has generally been capped at inflation.
    — The Editorial Board, WSJ, 26 Apr. 2021
  • Keep junk mail and schoolwork in drawers or wall organizers, not on your kitchen surface.
    — Ashley Chalmers, The Spruce, 22 May 2026
  • At its peak, junk mail was considered a scourge and viewed with some of the same contempt that is reserved for online ads today.
    — Heather Kelly, Washington Post, 30 Jan. 2020
  • Many people in both the first and second round of stimulus payments mistook the debit card for junk mail.
    — Washington Post, 16 Mar. 2021
  • Recycle the junk mail and put bills and other forms that require attention in your home office or desk area.
    — Tessa Cooper, Southern Living, 19 Dec. 2025
  • Vivek said the email was so low-key and seemingly innocuous and easily could have been bypassed as junk mail.
    — San Diego Union-Tribune, 30 Aug. 2022
  • The videos cover subjects ranging from how to spot junk mail to the time a colleague had to deliver a package of live snakes.
    — David Ingram, NBC News, 28 Jan. 2023

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