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

She had become known as an 11-year-old, writing a blog under a pen name for the BBC about living under the rule of the Pakistani Taliban.

From Reuters

For one, authors seemed to balance their professional and personal personas on the platform, retaining sometimes thousands of readers under pen names like “dontstealmypoptarts” or “iheartonedirection.”

From The Verge

It was his mother who introduced him to “Five Easy Pieces,” a film written by Carole Eastman under the male pen name Adrien Joyce.

From Los Angeles Times

The day had begun with the arrest of the paper’s lead opinion writer, Yeung Ching-kee, who wrote under the pen name Li Ping.

From New York Times