LETTER in a Sentence

Learn LETTER from example sentences; some of them are from classic books. These examples are selected from a corpus with 300,000 sentences, including classic works and current mainstream media. Some sentences also link to their contexts.
365 example sentences for LETTER, such as:
1. My letter was calm and affectionate.
2. The letter was the symbol of her calling.
3. The scarlet letter had not done its office.
4. We dashed off a letter to announce the news.
5. The letter was misdirected to our old address.
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Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
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 Meanings and Examples of LETTER
letter
 n.  an award earned by participation in a school sport
 v.  mark letters on or mark with letters
Classic Sentence: (210 in 15 pages)
1  This letter in a degree recalled me to life, and I determined to quit my island at the expiration of two days.
Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 20
2  My letter was calm and affectionate.
Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 22
3  In about a week after the arrival of Elizabeth's letter we returned to Geneva.
Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 22
4  I mentioned in my last letter the fears I entertained of a mutiny.
Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 24
5  She had a bottle of sauterne in one hand and a letter in the other.
The Great Gatsby By F. Scott Fitzgerald
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 4
6  The letter reached Gatsby while he was still at Oxford.
The Great Gatsby By F. Scott Fitzgerald
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 8
7  If there is anything I can do a little later let me know in a letter by Edgar.
The Great Gatsby By F. Scott Fitzgerald
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 9
8  Thus she will be a living sermon against sin, until the ignominious letter be engraved upon her tombstone.
The Scarlet Letter By Nathaniel Hawthorne
Context  Highlight   In III. THE RECOGNITION
9  He bears no letter of infamy wrought into his garment, as thou dost, but I shall read it on his heart.
The Scarlet Letter By Nathaniel Hawthorne
Context  Highlight   In IV. THE INTERVIEW
10  There glimmered the embroidered letter, with comfort in its unearthly ray.
The Scarlet Letter By Nathaniel Hawthorne
Context  Highlight   In XIII. ANOTHER VIEW OF HESTER
11  The letter was the symbol of her calling.
The Scarlet Letter By Nathaniel Hawthorne
Context  Highlight   In XIII. ANOTHER VIEW OF HESTER
12  If they were resolute to accost her, she laid her finger on the scarlet letter, and passed on.
The Scarlet Letter By Nathaniel Hawthorne
Context  Highlight   In XIII. ANOTHER VIEW OF HESTER
13  The scarlet letter had not done its office.
The Scarlet Letter By Nathaniel Hawthorne
Context  Highlight   In XIII. ANOTHER VIEW OF HESTER
14  It was debated whether or no, with safety to the commonweal, yonder scarlet letter might be taken off your bosom.
The Scarlet Letter By Nathaniel Hawthorne
Context  Highlight   In XIV. HESTER AND THE PHYSICIAN
15  The scarlet letter burned on Hester Prynne's bosom.
The Scarlet Letter By Nathaniel Hawthorne
Context  Highlight   In XIV. HESTER AND THE PHYSICIAN
Example Sentence: (155 in 11 pages)
1  I didn't want to say anything without actually reading the letter first.
2  The letter was misdirected to our old address.
3  Detach the lower part of the form from this letter and return it to the above address.
4  If you send your letter first class your parents will receive it tomorrow afternoon.
5  He also handed over a letter of apology from the Prime Minister.
6  The Lithuanian parliament also sent an open letter to the United Nations.
7  We dashed off a letter to announce the news.
8  I shall await your answer to my letter with eagerness.
9  The letter is to the effect that he will soon arrive.
10  The letter was a feeler to see what his attitude might be.
11  BThe district attorney notifies them by letter to attend a meeting at the school auditorium.
12  The letter lay unopened in the travel firm's pigeonhole.
13  If you capitalised a word, you use a capital letter at the beginning or for the whole of it.
14  If you capitalized a word, you use a capital letter at the beginning or for the whole of it.
15  She folded the letter so that it would fit into her bag.