How to Use milkman in a Sentence

milkman

noun
  • Charles remained in the dairy business for many years as a milkman.
    — courant.com, 8 Dec. 2019
  • For one thing, your milkman just might be a milkwoman.
    — Paul Edward Parker, The Providence Journal, 5 Mar. 2026
  • Her father was a milkman and her mother a seamstress and maid.
    — John Wilkens, sandiegouniontribune.com, 27 Apr. 2018
  • The umpire can already seem a man out of time, like a milkman or a doctor who makes house calls.
    — Zach Helfand, The New Yorker, 23 Aug. 2021
  • The sick were quarantined in their rooms, with signs posted on their front doors warning the milkman to stay away.
    — Michael Wilson, New York Times, 2 Apr. 2020
  • Dylan Field shines as the poor milkman and loving father, Tevye.
    — Hilary Lee, Orange County Register, 14 Apr. 2017
  • About the milkman Teyve with five daughters who had a hard life, who had a sense of humor and a sense of God.
    — Liz McNeil, PEOPLE.com, 9 July 2019
  • Bertie had seen from his window something that had been spotted minutes before by a passing milkman.
    — David Usborne, Town & Country, 29 May 2018
  • But its producers have taken notice of the milkman’s troubles.
    — New York Times, 25 July 2019
  • Then supermarkets and single-use containers planted a dead-end sign on our milkman's route.
    — Mat Honan, WIRED, 21 Aug. 2014
  • The milkman, Mahender, who uses one name, has appeared at dozens of hearings anyway.
    — Sameer Yasir Elke Scholiers, New York Times, 13 Jan. 2024
  • Her father, an aspiring tennis coach, also worked as a milkman, and her mother was a homemaker.
    — Brian Murphy, Washington Post, 22 Feb. 2023
  • The staff of 97 includes 29 milkmen and 1 milkwoman.
    — Paul Edward Parker, The Providence Journal, 5 Mar. 2026
  • His father, Milton, was a milkman, and his mother, May Hansen, was a homemaker.
    — Erin Griffith, New York Times, 25 Oct. 2019
  • Her father, John, was an aspiring tennis coach who made ends meet as a milkman, and her mother, Doris, was a homemaker.
    — Clay Risen, BostonGlobe.com, 21 Feb. 2023
  • But then the milkman, a senior paramilitary figure in the struggle against the country’s occupiers, takes an interest in her.
    — Mary Ann Gwinn, The Seattle Times, 20 Feb. 2019
  • Growing Borden The boomer generation may have fond memories of Elsie on the side of their milkman’s truck.
    — Natalie Walters, Dallas News, 26 May 2020
  • Only the chance discovery of the newborn by a milkman saved him from the infanticide that befell other such unwanted babies.
    — Peter Rainer, The Christian Science Monitor, 15 Aug. 2024
  • Freddie was the milkman for the Noone family in Manchester, England.
    — Bulletin Board, Twin Cities, 10 Nov. 2019
  • Brennan, who had previously just played small background parts, went on to describe how his childhood home had a cafeteria-style milk machine and a milkman who delivered.
    — Ross Raihala, Twin Cities, 20 Oct. 2025
  • The son of a milkman and a waitress, Scruggs remains an affable man, charming and cynical, with dry sense of humor and a salesman’s persistence.
    — Michael E. Ruane, Washington Post, 28 May 2018
  • That person is Milkman, who isn’t a milkman but earned the nickname, rumor has it, because of the paramilitary practice of secreting bombs inside milk delivery crates.
    — Sam Sacks, WSJ, 30 Nov. 2018
  • Set in 1901, the first act concerns itself with the everyday stuff of life — getting the kids off to school for mom, getting to work on time for dad, spats between brother and sister, the milkman making his rounds, etc.
    — Jordan Riefe, The Hollywood Reporter, 2 Oct. 2017
  • The story is set in 1905 Czarist Russia and revolves around Jewish milkman Tevye and his five daughters, all at or approaching marrying age.
    — G. Allen Johnson, SFChronicle.com, 29 Aug. 2019
  • Since 1964, the musical about a Jewish milkman clinging to tradition in Tsarist Russia has charmed audiences with its humor, heart and iconic music.
    — Kirby Adams, The Courier-Journal, 20 Oct. 2022
  • The parents are naturally disgusted by the vulgarity at first, whereas near the end of the video, Bregoli's 1960s alter ego is furious over a surprise celebrity cameo in the form of a well-meaning milkman.
    — Abby Jones, Billboard, 1 May 2018

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