pen pal
Example Sentences
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“He’s just an incredibly loving soul,” said actor Debra Winger, a pen pal and close friend of Robbins’.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 9, 2025
Sigrid shared similar experiences, offering that “your pen pal will change your perspective on life, and you will gain as much as they do from the correspondence.”
From Slate ● Sep. 12, 2023
In the song “I Don’t Know His Name,” Amalia concludes that her anonymous pen pal — even though he is, in fact, a co-worker she hates — must be an extremely kind and cultured man:
From New York Times ● Jun. 23, 2023
A woman whose childhood pen pal suddenly stopped writing after fleeing the Rwanda genocide has written a novel to "exorcise the grief of not knowing what happened" to her.
From BBC ● Feb. 25, 2023
I decide to leave out the fact that I have a mysterious pen pal who is helping me write it.
From "How to Disappear Completely" by Ali Standish
