epistle

Example Sentences

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This epistle is full of affection, respect and especially decency—that word George Orwell found best to describe the British people after he had returned from Burma and then watched his nation go to war.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 27, 2026

Yet the novel evolved incrementally from public to private, epistle to narrative as the scope of the vision enlarged.

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 10, 2024

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

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

The most strident criticism came in the form of a dense, multipage epistle from Ambler, a tiny Inupiat village on the Kobuk River north of the Arctic Circle.

From "Into the Wild" by Jon Krakauer