47 examples of letter-box in sentences

Kallem went into the hall, and saw that two pieces of paper had been thrust through the letter-box.

On one side of the grating there is a small space like a letter-box slip, and through this communications in writing, of various dimensions, are handed.

In the vestibule below was a letter-box into which no letter would go, and an electric button from which no mortal finger could coax a ring.

When I am disposed to give myself a day's rest, I order the Lion to be opened [i.e., a letter-box at BUTTON's Coffee-house], and search into that magazine of intelligence for such letters as are to my purpose.

THE BIRDS IN THE LETTER-BOX BY RENE BAZIN

One year, when all the places were taken, I suppose, a tomtit, in her embarrassment, spied the slit of the letter-box protected by its little roof, at the right of the parsonage gate.

" "Haven't they got the idea of laying their eggs in your letter-box!

The abbé went hastily through the garden, the house, the court planted with asparagus, till he came to the wall which separated the parsonage from the public road, and there he carefully opened the letter-box, in which there would have been room enough for all the mail received in a year by all the inhabitants of the village.

At the age of twenty-one he dropped his first little sketch "stealthily, with fear and trembling, into a dark letter-box, in a dark office up a dark court in Fleet Street.

"Here's the letter-box," he said, stopping.

She inserted the letter into an envelope, which she addressed and stamped, and then she fled with it from the house, and in two minutes it was in a letter-box, and she was walking slowly along the King's Road past the shops.

Ralph had got into the habit of watching for them on the days when a foreign post was due, and as the weeks went by without a sign he began to invent excuses for leaving the office earlier and hurrying back to Washington Square to search the letter-box for a big tinted envelope with a straggling blotted superscription.

" Creeping down the passage, he said "Who's there?" through the letter-box.

Returning to his own department, and glancing at the letter-box in the hall, he reflected with satisfaction how his professional duties had been scrupulously fulfilled, and how in accordance with his misconception of Lord Bearwarden's orders, every packet that reached the house had been forwarded to its master without delay.

It was handed in with the others from the front-door letter-box this morning in an unstamped envelope.

I was all for waiting till the next morning, but Celia explained that there was actually a letter-box on our own floor, twenty yards down the passage.

but then he Never had a letter-box which went Flipperty-flipperty-flipperty-flipperty-flipperty-flipperty-flipperty- flipperty-flipperty-flippertyFLOP.

Flick, flickhere's Madeline again on the street with the letter still in her handshe's gone to a letter-box with itwhy doesn't she post it?

A correspondent dropped the Observer leaf into our letter-box in the course of last week; but, unfortunately, the communication did not reach us in time for insertion with our Engraving.

Your nice letter was in the letter-box as I started for school with H.; I called to papa to let him know it was there and went off, begrudging him the pleasure of reading it before I did.

When I got home there was no papa and no letter to be found; I looked in every room, on his desk and on mine, posted down to the letter-box and into the parlor, in vain.

In fact, he had been home only a couple of days when the evening stage left in the McBride letter-box the daily paper containing the story of Ruggam's "break" and of the reward offered for his capture.

He made straight for the front door, where, having slipped up the catch of the lock, he began very attentively to examine the letter-box.

De Pretis says the reason he sings so well is because he has a mouth like the slit in an organ pipe, as wide as a letter-box at the post-office.

I don't know where the letter-box is.

47 examples of  letter-box  in sentences