How to Use postcard in a Sentence

postcard

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  • It’s the back of the postcard, the meat of the message, and nothing else.
    — WIRED, 26 Aug. 2022
  • In the early 1900s, postcards were a way to spread news.
    — John Kelly, Washington Post, 9 May 2023
  • Five works on the program were matched with a postcard each.
    — Christian Hertzog, San Diego Union-Tribune, 27 May 2022
  • The price of a postcard — increases from 48 cents to 51 cents.
    — Leada Gore | Lgore@al.com, al, 8 July 2023
  • The last her family heard from her was a postcard in May of that year.
    — Rachel Pannett, Washington Post, 15 Nov. 2023
  • The back of the Alamo table (card) was a postcard showing a herd of elk in Brackenridge Park.
    — Paula Allen, San Antonio Express-News, 9 July 2022
  • The postcard-worthy locale boasts some of the finest views along the Texas Gulf, comprising 2,000 acres from the ocean to the bayside.
    — Perri Ormont Blumberg, Chron, 29 May 2022
  • Each box comes with coffee and brewing tips along with a postcard from the country where the beans were grown.
    — Taylor Fox, Travel + Leisure, 23 Oct. 2023
  • But the postcard appears to be postmarked in Seattle, Wash., on May 4.
    — Paul Gattis | Pgattis@al.com, al, 12 May 2022
  • There is no wall behind the stage, so the background is a picture-postcard Bavaria of mountains and pines.
    — Dominic Green, WSJ, 12 Sep. 2022
  • On a snowy day in 2003, Lélia Picabia received a postcard at her Paris home.
    — Cnaan Liphshiz, Sun Sentinel, 26 July 2022
  • The package also showed a treasure chest, a New York postcard and a full moon.
    — Dana Rose Falcone, Peoplemag, 19 Oct. 2023
  • The deadline for members to cast a vote via postcard or online is 5 p.m. PT on Dec. 5.
    — Cynthia Littleton, Variety, 24 Nov. 2023
  • Seen from afar, the parish of Ponta do Sol looks as compact and picturesque as a postcard.
    — Susana Ferreira, WIRED, 16 Dec. 2022
  • The air is like Florida’s, hot and heavy to touch, the haze like a postcard of Los Angeles.
    — Tom McTague, The Atlantic, 19 July 2022
  • The sweeping views of the caldera are like watching a moving postcard in slow motion.
    — Cnt Editors, Condé Nast Traveler, 20 Dec. 2023
  • The alley framed a postcard view of the Empire State Building, rising into the ether.
    — Michael Kimmelman, New York Times, 25 Oct. 2023
  • There’s an excellent wine list, but very little of it is from the vines that are in all those postcard views.
    — Ann Abel, Forbes, 10 June 2022
  • The book is based on historical postcards that tell the story of San Diego.
    — San Diego Union-Tribune, 26 Sep. 2023
  • The source of the Thames, the river seen in so many postcard images of London, has also dried up, experts said.
    — Patrick Smith, NBC News, 12 Aug. 2022
  • This is a postcard view of the melting pot, scrubbed of historical specifics.
    — Charles McNulty, Los Angeles Times, 26 Apr. 2023
  • To say our first stop looked like a postcard would be a vast understatement.
    — Lily Radziemski, Washington Post, 16 Sep. 2022
  • The postcards are in addition to a letter sent by the city and a note dropped inside the trash can when delivered.
    — Heather Gann | Hgann@al.com, al, 26 Jan. 2023
  • Three of the most popular alpine lakes in the jagged Sawtooth Mountain range appear straight out of a postcard.
    — Sunset Magazine, 16 May 2022
  • Or, for that matter, the romantic postcard chic of Emily in Paris.
    — Tom Gliatto, Peoplemag, 22 June 2023
  • When the soldiers hit their targets, Gordon would tap the postcard and grasshoppers would fall from the building, so to speak.
    — Christopher Borrelli, Chicago Tribune, 5 May 2023
  • And, should literary inspiration strike, there were postcards on the desk (the crew, I was told, would mail them from stops along the way).
    — Shamilee Vellu, Travel + Leisure, 24 Feb. 2024
  • The postcard-perfect views from this 40th-floor dining room are as much of a draw as the classy, unpretentious menu.
    — Liza Weisstuch, Washington Post, 8 July 2022
  • In 2003, an unsigned postcard reached the Berest family home.
    — Laura Cappelle, New York Times, 15 May 2023
  • There were scripts, telegrams, contracts, prop guns, movie posters, postcards from the Navy to his beloved Cleo, and monogrammed lighters and matchbooks.
    — Erik Himmelsbach-Weinstein, Los Angeles Times, 7 Mar. 2024

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