How to Use pen pal in a Sentence

pen pal

noun

• The couple first met the prince in 1974, and from then on, Nancy and Charles were pen pals of sorts.
  — Brenna Williams, CNN, 31 Aug. 2017
• Jay and Jun spent their youths countries apart but were pen pals.
  — Delfina Barbiero, USA TODAY, 19 June 2019
• This led Naomi to sign up to a US prison pen pal service.
  — Daisy Schofield, refinery29.com, 5 July 2021
• In the books, LJ and John Ambrose have kept in touch over the years and are actually pen pals.
  — Tamara Fuentes, Seventeen, 14 Feb. 2020
• Upstairs, Em is freaking out at the prospect of coming face-to-face with her pen pal.
  — Jessica Goldstein, Vulture, 24 Dec. 2021
• People used to be pen pals and the lucky ones eventually got to meet up.
  — Amy Dickinson, Washington Post, 25 Feb. 2023
• The first was back in the 1990s to support a fellow runner, who was a digital pen pal.
  — John Delapp, Houston Chronicle, 24 Sep. 2020
• After winter break, Barbara Pierce went back to school in the South, but the two became pen pals.
  — Time, 17 Apr. 2018
• Needless to say, Corona was pleased to hear back from his new pen pal — and no longer feeling down about his name.
  — Los Angeles Times, 24 Apr. 2020
• One of Bruce’s classmates had a British pen pal, and some of that girl’s friends wanted writing buddies of their own.
  — Marisa Iati, Washington Post, 12 Mar. 2023
• Some donors become almost like pen pals, as Roberts sees them send in a gift year after year.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 11 Dec. 2019
• One of her followers retweeted with a picture holding the same book and asked if the two could be pen pals and swap notes.
  — Kynala Phillips, Essence, 29 July 2019
• Many people started pen pal chains and stocked up on stamps because of the dire news coming out of the postal service.
  — Kim Hyatt, Star Tribune, 31 July 2020
• People first reported the news of her engagement to her prison pen pal in April of 2019.
  — Kaitlin Reilly, refinery29.com, 15 July 2019
• And the guy who did get a phone number merely became a pen pal for a few weeks before ghosting.
  — Nicole Motamed, Los Angeles Times, 10 July 2021
• Not for me, but my son did have a pen pal program in elementary school.
  — Maureen Lee Lenker, EW.com, 18 July 2019
• Some are looking for a pen pal that will read the Bible along with them, while others are just looking for someone to talk sports with.
  — Emily Vanschmus, Better Homes & Gardens, 30 June 2020
• Now all of their residents can experience the joy of a pen pal.
  — Meghan Overdeep, Southern Living, 7 July 2020
• Things don't work out at the time, but the two reconnect years later as pen pals during the pandemic.
  — Katie Bowlby, Country Living, 28 Feb. 2023
• Fenster said Addie wants to continue as a pen pal with Melquist.
  — Joel Rippel, Star Tribune, 21 Aug. 2020
• Waiting for him was a high school classmate named Cristina, his only prison pen pal.
  — Lori Basheda, Los Angeles Times, 18 May 2021
• More never-have-I-evers follow: had a pen pal, learned a language, ate tapas, cried in the cinema, bought and sold at the right time, or at any time.
  — New York Times, 1 July 2022
• Cathy Bellovary visits her two young second-grade pen pals at Banting School in Waukesha.
  — Crocker Stephenson, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 28 May 2018
• The sweetest tale ever of a young girl, her fairy garden and a kind stranger who found comfort being a pen pal to her and her family.
  — Shira Ovide, New York Times, 14 Dec. 2020
• They the idea to connect each resident with a pen pal to help keep them connected to the community and the outside world.
  — Emily Vanschmus, Better Homes & Gardens, 30 June 2020
• William, who has Heike’s names tattooed on his eyebrows, responded to her letter and the pair were pen pals for a year before Heike flew to Texas to meet him for the first time.
  — Fox News, 12 Mar. 2018
• Ellis convinced Linnaeus to name the new find for his pen pal in Charleston, Alexander Garden.
  — Steve Bender, Southern Living, 22 Aug. 2023
• Now, Jacob's spirit lives on as his many pen pals remember the boy who loved Christmas — and penguins.
  — Caroline Picard, Good Housekeeping, 20 Nov. 2017
• Why do these disruptive, online-first companies want to be our old school pen pals?
  — Chavie Lieber, Vox, 1 Nov. 2018
• Newton spoke of the incident to many people, including his pen pal Voltaire.
  — Brian Handwerk, Smithsonian, 7 Mar. 2018

Last Updated: 27 Jun 2024