Example sentences for: letters

How can you use “letters” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • Over the next decade, I made my biographer's rounds, like the postman deterred neither by sleet nor snow--nor by occasional emanations of reticence or frostiness from my subject--from the routine (often a fascinating routine) of poring over his unpublished manuscripts in the rare book and manuscript division of the University of Chicago Library; lugging my laptop all over America in quest of high-school classmates, cousins, friends, and lovers of my famously peripatetic subject; driving Avis rental cars into the remotest suburbs of Los Angeles and flying into Buffalo, N.Y., in pursuit of letters in private hands.

  • The Postal Service has two basic subclasses for letters and flats: First Class (originally rapid, non-bulk, and sealed against inspection) and Standard A (originally deferrable, bulk, and not sealed against inspection).

  • The editorial pages seize on McCain's FCC letters, with the WP saying he "badly overstepped the rules," and the NYT calling the letters "improper."

  • Address your e-mail to the editors to letters@slate.com.


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