business envelope
Americannoun
Example Sentences
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Editors recently opened an "official business" envelope from the Navy Department, pulled out two pages of poetry under the title Pacifism, by one Archibald Hopkins.*
From Time Magazine Archive
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With a hyphenated surname, she would no longer fit into the window of a business envelope.
From "The Namesake" by Jhumpa Lahiri
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She crossed the room again to straighten the stack of books on his lamp table, and was doing so when a pamphlet the size of a business envelope caught her eye.
From "Go Set a Watchman: A Novel" by Harper Lee
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How often she had dreamed of the small business envelope, addressed in an unfamiliar hand, which might one day appear there!
From A Bookful of Girls by Fuller, Anna
Something had happened, and it had come through that long business envelope with the typewritten address that seemed so harmless.
From Black Jack by Brand, Max
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