pen pal
Example Sentences
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We've already had fans telling BBC Scotland about rooms being booked, flights lined up and favours being pulled in from that long-lost school pen pal offering a room in Dusseldorf.
From BBC • Oct. 15, 2023
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
He said a German pen pal who befriended him in prison helped in his rehabilitation.
From Los Angeles Times • May 8, 2023
A woman whose childhood pen pal suddenly stopped writing after fleeing the Rwanda genocide has written a novel to "exorcise the grief of not knowing what happened" to her.
From BBC • Feb. 25, 2023
The ship could always use dishwashers or laundresses, she had heard, and so she would work her way to San Francisco where Amy, her pen pal, lived.
From "Julie of the Wolves" by Jean Craighead George
