epistle

Example Sentences

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To ponder the question and practice decoding an extraterrestrial epistle, an artist-led team has created a mock message from the stars to test us Earthlings.

From Scientific American • Aug. 3, 2023

Wohl imagines this section as an epistle to Bobby, describing what became of Edie.

From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 17, 2022

Robert William Crampton confirmed he was hoping for "a cowboy suit and guns and a hat and everything", though his father wrote the festive epistle.

From BBC • Jul. 29, 2021

Nearly everything that worked so well the first time falls apart in the new series, which becomes a languorously long, frequently cryptic epistle on the sin of letting style conquer substance.

From Washington Post • Jan. 12, 2020

The most strident criticism came in the form of a dense, multipage epistle from Ambler, a tiny Inupiat village on the Kobuk River north of the Arctic Circle.

From "Into the Wild" by Jon Krakauer