pen friend
Britishnoun
Example Sentences
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Twenty years after their unlikely pen pal correspondence comes to a sudden end, Iris is working as a journalist in London and sets about trying to find her pen friend.
From BBC • Feb. 25, 2023
"For instance, for years and years, Christopher thought he was a pen friend of French actor Gérard Depardieu," he says, giving just one example of the Edwards' fantasy world.
From BBC • Dec. 6, 2021
We belonged to different divorced and separated clubs; I was the vice-chairman of the one in Portsmouth where I lived, and they used to have a magazine and she advertised for a pen friend.
From The Guardian • Mar. 18, 2017
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