pen pal
Example Sentences
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It was a dream come true for Max, who has since become Britain's youngest zookeeper at Chessington Zoo, and acquired an Australian pen pal who loves Max's passion.
From BBC • May 7, 2026
Directed by Shunji Iwai, “Love Letter” starred Nakayama as both a woman mourning her late fiancé and her unexpected pen pal.
From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 6, 2024
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
Maybe that’s what my pen pal was trying to tell me in the last chapter of our story.
From "How to Disappear Completely" by Ali Standish
