Sentence examples for checking the mail from inspiring English sources

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Streaming services from Netflix and Apple, along with Web sites like Hulu, give consumers plenty to watch without leaving home or even checking the mail.

After weeks of anxiously checking the mail for job offers and plane tickets, I received a single reply, from a professor at Berkeley.

It ambles up an avenue, sniffing bushes where other dogs have marked -- "checking the mail," as they say in dog parlance.

A pity this approach isn't catching on at most institutions favored in the more prosperous suburbs a few miles west, where students who chose early decision are already checking the mail with hope and dread.

On Monday, Mr. Rodriguez told the authorities that he had returned from a bar and was checking the mail in the lobby of his building when he was followed inside by a man, said the law enforcement official, who spoke on the condition of anonymity.

It goes back to when we, as younguns, used to write letters to our favorite baseball players, checking the mail every day for their response, or waiting for parents or loved ones to send us care packages at summer camp.

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Check the mail.

After snowshoeing back to headquarters, he checked the mail.

Some people with the illness shower repeatedly or check the mail 100 times a day.

The landlord checks the mail one or two times a week and leaves our mail on a table in a shared hallway.

Visible through the open cage, I hoped a neighbor would soon wander out in his underwear to check the mail or take the dog for a walk.

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