pen name

Example Sentences

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The prize is named after novelist and essayist Samuel Clemens, better known by his pen name, Mark Twain.

From Reuters

Three recent murders — a shooting, a stabbing and what appears to be a death caused by claws — resemble those from the “twisty, blood-and-guts, psycho-thriller revenge tales” that Holly wrote under the pen name Horace Bellow.

From Seattle Times

Along the way she adopted a stage name, Cara De Silva, which she kept as a pen name after she became a writer.

From New York Times

“Don’t expect anything from Leviathan — there’s no point in appealing, either,” Chen Min, a former journalist better known by his pen name, Xiao Shu, wrote on his WeChat timeline, referring to the central government.

From New York Times

In 1970, she adopted the pen name Xi Xi because its Chinese characters, 西西, evoked for her the motion of a girl jumping from one hopscotch square to the next.

From New York Times