pen pal

Example Sentences

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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

I chuckled because I wasn’t sure what was more comical: the persistence of this long-lost pen pal or the thought of me ever leaving L.A.

From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 21, 2023

He met Rhianan's mother via a pen pal system for prisoners.

From BBC • Jan. 3, 2023

Lily had been studying English in school and had a British pen pal, whose family agreed to sponsor Lily’s removal to England as part of the operation known as Kindertransport.

From New York Times • Sep. 14, 2022

Our homework assignment that night was to write a letter to our new pen pal.

From "I Will Always Write Back" by Caitlin Alifirenka and Martin Ganda