epistle

Example Sentences

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To ponder the question and practice decoding an extraterrestrial epistle, an artist-led team has created a mock message from the stars to test us Earthlings.

From Scientific American • Aug. 3, 2023

Wohl imagines this section as an epistle to Bobby, describing what became of Edie.

From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 17, 2022

Robert William Crampton confirmed he was hoping for "a cowboy suit and guns and a hat and everything", though his father wrote the festive epistle.

From BBC • Jul. 29, 2021

Nearly everything that worked so well the first time falls apart in the new series, which becomes a languorously long, frequently cryptic epistle on the sin of letting style conquer substance.

From Washington Post • Jan. 12, 2020

On the way, Sor Asunci6n read us the epistle, which is what she called the rules we were to observe.

From "In the Time of the Butterflies" by Julia Alvarez