addressee

Example Sentences

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The mysterious addressee was then sent seven letters, a bank card, a PIN, overdraft limit warnings and a warning that an outstanding debt could be referred to a credit reference agency.

From BBC • Nov. 24, 2025

In such a case, the apparent addressee is not the real addressee: the teacher is trying to pass on information indirectly to one or more other students.

From Science Daily • Sep. 19, 2023

“Needless to say the addressee was quite startled when they opened the box,” Port Chester police wrote on Facebook.

From Seattle Times • Aug. 31, 2022

Its wrapping bears a postmark of May 11, 1965, and the sender and addressee are the same: Lewis Reed.

From New York Times • Jun. 6, 2022

The Korean language has no fewer than six different levels of conversational address, depending on the relationship between the addressee and the addresser: formal deference, informal deference, blunt, familiar, intimate, and plain.

From "Outliers" by Malcolm Gladwell