How to Use correspondence in a Sentence

correspondence

noun
  • Note the correspondence of each number to a location on the map.
  • The two men began a correspondence that would continue throughout their lives.
  • A book of the author's personal correspondence was published early last year.
  • A formal tone is always used in business correspondence.
  • Sometimes there is little correspondence between the way a word is spelled and the way it is pronounced in English.
  • Sometimes there are few correspondences between spelling and pronunciation.
  • E-mail correspondence has become extremely important for modern businesses.
  • They communicated by telephone and correspondence.
  • Suzanne and Aimé Césaire have this long correspondence with him.
    Georg Szalai, The Hollywood Reporter, 17 Oct. 2024
  • All the correspondence went to the clerk's office, and was not sent on to the judge.
    Bruce Vielmetti, Journal Sentinel, 1 Nov. 2022
  • Some kinds of correspondence must be kept for at least a year.
    Amanda Gokee, BostonGlobe.com, 27 Mar. 2023
  • This is not the first public correspondence that the Band and the oil giant have had this year.
    Caitlin Looby, Journal Sentinel, 11 July 2024
  • That is where the correspondence came to an end, Ms. Gadar and Mr. Gallagher said.
    Katherine Rosman, New York Times, 14 Oct. 2022
  • Buckingham Palace's correspondence team has been hard at work since the death of the Queen.
    Janine Henni, Peoplemag, 20 Oct. 2022
  • Carr explained in the Q&A that the fans interviewed for the film and who shared their correspondence agreed to do so to help catch the culprit.
    Karen Bliss, Variety, 16 Sep. 2024
  • Clock said the city has not received any formal correspondence from the state.
    Tammy Murga, San Diego Union-Tribune, 9 Jan. 2024
  • On the other side of the correspondence is the spectrum of frequencies of the sine waves — that is, their pitches.
    Erica Klarreich, Quanta Magazine, 19 July 2024
  • Even in his private correspondence, Baldwin believed in the power of the word to change the world.
    Vann R. Newkirk Ii, The Atlantic, 2 Aug. 2024
  • But the correspondences also show the gap left by their absence.
    Lovia Gyarkye, The Hollywood Reporter, 8 Sep. 2023
  • Here and there on the walls were old Trouser Press covers and correspondence.
    Nick Paumgarten, The New Yorker, 15 Jan. 2024
  • The telegram to Friar Park provides the coda to the correspondence.
    Guy Martin, Forbes, 28 Feb. 2024
  • The scene is spartan: a cot, some books, a messy pile of correspondence, a collection of chintzy piggy banks.
    John Semley, WIRED, 16 Feb. 2023
  • In 1962, Jimmy Carter ran for a seat in the Georgia state Senate, and his wife took charge of all his campaign correspondence.
    Kevin Sullivan, Washington Post, 19 Nov. 2023
  • Later, the conversation turned to the more than 50 years of correspondence from fans that Blume preserved and are now archived at Yale.
    Angelique Jackson, Variety, 22 Apr. 2023
  • The agency sends out warning letters from time to time, and an up-to-date list of all their correspondence can be found on their website.
    Nick Rogan, Discover Magazine, 9 Dec. 2022
  • From there, the pair began a correspondence and Flanagan offered to read one of Stuckmann’s spec scripts.
    William Earl, Variety, 20 July 2024
  • Brown met her husband in a prison correspondence program, and opted to move to L.A. as soon as she was released.
    Erin Hooley, Chicago Tribune, 25 Dec. 2022
  • One day, Haris' friend mentioned this correspondence to Haris.
    Francesca Street, CNN, 6 July 2022
  • In her apartment, life and work compete for square footage; her living room is strewn with books, pamphlets, and piles of correspondence.
    Hazlitt, 4 Sep. 2024
  • The Troy city clerk's office uses several methods for official correspondence, including online, via mail and telephone.
    Jenna Prestininzi, Detroit Free Press, 7 Oct. 2024

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