How to Use postage stamp in a Sentence

postage stamp

noun
  • The third is all about postage stamps.
    — Angela Andaloro, PEOPLE, 3 Nov. 2025
  • In that regard, rare coins may have an edge over rare postage stamps.
    — Steve Rubenstein, SFChronicle.com, 11 Feb. 2020
  • When the weather is nice, the postage stamp-sized roof opens as well.
    — Brandon Presser, Condé Nast Traveler, 17 Mar. 2020
  • One of my friends enclosed a book of postage stamps in her get-well card.
    — Washington Post, 8 July 2019
  • Even the dessert menu is tiny, barely bigger than a postage stamp.
    — Kate Washington, sacbee, 23 Mar. 2018
  • Now there’s a US postage stamp, with his name and face on it.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 26 June 2021
  • On an iPhone, its images would be about the size of postage stamps.
    — David W. Brown, The New Yorker, 15 Oct. 2024
  • There’s more art in the postage stamp of a city center than anyplace on earth.
    — Brian T. Allen, National Review, 21 Dec. 2023
  • And there was even talk, at one point, of attaching postage stamps to e-mail.
    — David Scharfenberg, BostonGlobe.com, 14 June 2018
  • He was given medals and his image was featured on postage stamps.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 26 Sep. 2019
  • Most computer chips are tiny, the size of a postage stamp or smaller.
    — John Koetsier, Forbes.com, 28 May 2025
  • How avant-garde, really, is a group that designs postage stamps?
    — Jackson Arn, The New Yorker, 18 Mar. 2024
  • This wallpaper works more like an old-school postage stamp, rather than a sticker.
    — Jennifer Barger, Washington Post, 21 Mar. 2023
  • Bardot's face appeared on statues, postage stamps and even on coins.
    — CBS News, 28 Dec. 2025
  • The company’s battery free sensor is the size of a postage stamp.
    — Mike Freeman, San Diego Union-Tribune, 27 July 2021
  • The Irish government had honored him with a postage stamp (of course).
    — Jay Nordlinger, National Review, 30 Oct. 2017
  • This is especially true if your yard has any slopes, hills or square footage beyond a postage stamp.
    — Lauren Jarvis-Gibson, Charlotte Observer, 14 Apr. 2026
  • Vekic drew Paolini in, then lobbed deep to the postage stamp back-right corner of the court.
    — Matthew Futterman, The Athletic, 11 July 2024
  • The tables were sticky and the ladies room down some rickety stairs, dimly lit, and felt like the size of a postage stamp.
    — Kate Stone Lombardi, Good Housekeeping, 25 June 2020
  • She is also said to appear on postage stamps in North Korea.
    — Emma Bussey, FOXNews.com, 3 Sep. 2025
  • This isn't the first time Lennon has been commemorated on a postage stamp.
    — David Chiu, Forbes, 21 Sep. 2021
  • Above her headboard, a small square painting floats on a blank wall like a postage stamp, recalling a cross above the bed.
    — Keith Flanagan, Architectural Digest, 11 Sep. 2025
  • The paintings were copied onto postage stamps and more than 4 million sets of posters before the end of the war.
    — Kevin Baker, Harper's magazine, 10 Mar. 2019
  • Another clerk fetched the postage stamps from customer service, saving me a trip.
    — Ticked Off, The Orlando Sentinel, 15 Apr. 2026
  • Franklin, his key, and his kite have graced everything from portraits to postage stamps to tea cups and tank tops for centuries.
    — Craig Bruce Smith, TIME, 12 Apr. 2024
  • But so does that backhand from off the court, firing over the net post and slamming down onto a postage stamp target.
    — Matthew Futterman, New York Times, 13 May 2025
  • On one page from Saar’s Haiti sketchbooks, earth tones overlap a Haitian postage stamp.
    — Catherine G. Wagley, BostonGlobe.com, 16 Mar. 2023
  • Roughly 900 feet below me is the rocky, postage stamp–size shelf where the group had started our climb.
    — AFAR Media, 30 Sep. 2025
  • Five classic muscle cars from the height of the pony-car era are about to look good standing perfectly still on a postage stamp.
    — Sebastian Blanco, Car and Driver, 16 July 2022
  • Arizona’s smallest bar covers a cozy 95 square feet, and has four stools and a postage stamp-size table.
    — Roger Naylor, azcentral, 14 Aug. 2019

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