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

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

From BBC • Jan. 3, 2023

Then I’d drift off into puffy clouds, thinking a boy liked me, let me ride his go-kart, and promised to be my pen pal.

From "P.S. Be Eleven" by Rita Williams-Garcia