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

Twenty years after their unlikely pen pal correspondence comes to a sudden end, Iris is working as a journalist in London and sets about trying to find her pen friend.

From BBC • Feb. 25, 2023

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

From BBC • Jan. 3, 2023

I could not believe my pen pal would send me something so precious.

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