How to Use fan mail in a Sentence

fan mail

noun
  • The band gets a lot of fan mail.
  • In the band’s early days, the bulk of the fan mail went to Jones.
    Sheri Linden, The Hollywood Reporter, 6 Nov. 2023
  • What’s even more humbling is the fan mail from time to time.
    Melinda Newman, Billboard, 3 May 2018
  • The team had to hire a secretary to handle his fan mail.
    Frank Fitzpatrick, Philly.com, 5 Nov. 2017
  • The other was sending me all this fan art to my P.O. box when my mom used to do my fan mail.
    Brennan Kilbane, Allure, 20 Apr. 2020
  • Send story ideas, tips, complaints and fan mail to cbrasted@nola.com.
    Jennifer Larino, NOLA.com, 4 Jan. 2018
  • Louise had to hire high school girls to sort through all the fan mail pouring into the house on McCann Street.
    Ackerman + Gruber, Smithsonian Magazine, 10 May 2020
  • There’s also the balance between a bad review and a piece of fan mail.
    Chris Varias, Cincinnati.com, 13 Oct. 2017
  • Finally, Beede reads some fan mail while sharing his fan of the week.
    Charles King, Orlando Sentinel, 11 Oct. 2022
  • Why, after all, would Rilke have kept fan mail from a wide-eyed nineteen-year-old?
    Kamran Javadizadeh, The New Yorker, 26 May 2021
  • And if that wasn’t enough, Roher even received fan mail from Jim Carrey.
    Katherine Brodsky, Variety, 22 Nov. 2022
  • Prison's been packed with fan mail Even in prison, Sorrentino's mailbox has been busy.
    Charles Trepany, USA TODAY, 11 Sep. 2019
  • In an attempt to keep busy, the actor asked the studio to have all of his fan mail sent directly to his apartment.
    Megan Harney, Good Housekeeping, 26 June 2015
  • Catie Turner Catie is thrilled to be receiving fan mail.
    Robbie Daw, Billboard, 23 Apr. 2018
  • Cult leaders like Charles Manson have also received fan mail in the past.
    CBS News, 30 Mar. 2018
  • Two years later, the deluge of fan mail was overwhelming.
    Wsj Books Staff, WSJ, 17 Aug. 2022
  • Raitt may soon be getting a fresh slew of fan mail from grateful listeners.
    San Diego Union-Tribune, 24 Apr. 2022
  • As a result, fan mail is being stamped ‘return to sender’ and is not delivered....
    Los Angeles Times, 19 May 2022
  • Johnny was 17 and receiving piles of fan mail when the series ended.
    New York Times, 5 May 2021
  • The duo has received fan mail from across the country and appeared on news and radio stations in far-flung places like Michigan and Canada.
    Morgan Smith, PEOPLE.com, 4 Dec. 2019
  • The panorama included a rumpled bed; a handmade card from Grant Shaffer, the husband of his co-star Alan Cumming; and a pile of fan mail.
    Aaron Hicklin, New York Times, 20 Mar. 2020
  • But the actress, who made a practice of shunning reporters, premieres and fan mail, claimed that she had been misquoted.
    Brigit Katz, Smithsonian, 8 Dec. 2017
  • And Blume took their fan mail seriously, writing back to her readers.
    Esther Zuckerman, The Hollywood Reporter, 31 May 2023
  • And since its early days, Atomic Books has collected fan mail for one of its long-standing customers.
    Baltimore Sun Staff, baltimoresun.com, 7 July 2021
  • Burnett remembers giving Lawrence, now 74, her start in the industry after Lawrence sent her a piece of fan mail.
    Liz McNeil, Peoplemag, 5 Apr. 2023
  • These days, Poon spends a lot of time answering fan mail for Cricket and writing back to people on Instagram.
    Devin Kelly, Anchorage Daily News, 1 Mar. 2018
  • Hodson remembers writing fan mail to a member of the pop band Hanson, convinced that the strength of her desire would bring the two of them together.
    Maddie Crum, The Seattle Times, 25 June 2018
  • When Eminem is slow to respond to the fan mail, Stan commits suicide out of frustration and a feeling of abandonment.
    Brianna Holt, Quartz, 7 Feb. 2020
  • On Kemp’s makeup table sit a single tube of Alpha Male Cosmetics concealer next to a short stack of fan mail.
    Brennan Kilban, Allure, 27 July 2021
  • Tom Hanks recently responded to some fan mail from a young boy named Corona.
    Los Angeles Times, 24 Apr. 2020

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