How to Use epistolary in a Sentence

epistolary

adjective

• The two struck up an epistolary romance and were married in 1969.
  — Washington Post, 12 Mar. 2021
• Two of her novels are epistolary, so that the characters take turns speaking in the first person.
  — Joan Acocella, The New Yorker, 22 July 2019
• This epistolary poem is directed to a friend of the speaker’s, the poet Kamilah Aisha Moon, who died in 2021.
  — Aracelis Girmay Victoria Chang, New York Times, 30 Sep. 2022
• The epistolary impulse, Tiller knows, often comes from a desire to correct or to confess, and to extract meaning from the mess of our days.
  — Alejandro Chacoff, The New Yorker, 3 Jan. 2022
• But Jack and Louise’s son, Ken Ludwig, recreated them from the stories his parents told him about their epistolary courtship.
  — San Diego Union-Tribune, 29 June 2021
• This epistolary novel tracks the lives of various people living in the midst of a zombie plague over a period of years.
  — Milan Polk, Men's Health, 24 Oct. 2022
• This epistolary book by the famed Atlantic writer reflects on racism’s long shadow.
  — Emma Sarappo, The Atlantic, 1 Feb. 2022
• And a version of those letters became the epistolary framing for the novel, which came together in only three months.
  — New York Times, 5 June 2022
• Lee said that gap in epistolary history gave her the creative license to imagine how van Gogh’s Paris experiences set the stage for what was to come.
  — Pam Kragen, San Diego Union-Tribune, 12 Nov. 2021
• Our epistolary friendship challenged the idea of his creativity, pushed him to start writing again.
  — Holly Gleason, cleveland, 17 Mar. 2021
• The title refers to his epistolary relationship with a fellow student, also in the closet, also on the verge of coming out.
  — Gary Thompson, Philly.com, 14 Mar. 2018
• In this epistolary science fiction novel, time travel agents Red and Blue are fighting for different sides in a war.
  — Emily Burack, Town & Country, 24 Jan. 2023
• The film, which documents an epistolary bond between two lonely souls, gives Khan a role that bears amusing parallels to his Salaam Bombay!
  — Mayukh Sen, The Atlantic, 30 Apr. 2020
• Ubisoft wants to build worlds, and the company is accomplishing it with a unique companion book that is part survival guide, part epistolary novel.
  — Mo Mozuch, Newsweek, 23 Feb. 2016
• To date, all the commands arise from an epistolary relationship maintained 100% through the Internet.
  — Javier Hasse, Forbes, 27 May 2021
• In the American countryside during the middle decades of the nineteenth century, the mail came once a week, on the same day, providing a nice rhythm for epistolary romances and a chance to scold relatives.
  — The New Yorker, 15 Nov. 2021
• The missive was indeed audacious: not just a fan letter, of the kind that a world-renowned photographer like Soth might receive, but one that also sought to strike up an epistolary exchange.
  — Chris Wiley, The New Yorker, 13 Dec. 2020
• The trio, who share a house and the epistolary project, are all past Renaissance Festival players, experienced in taking on personas.
  — Kevyn Burger Special To The Star Tribune, Star Tribune, 11 Dec. 2020
• In this epistolary novel, the author asks, and answers, how does a person who experienced such profound loss become whole again?
  — Karin Tanabe, Washington Post, 31 Oct. 2022
• Cowritten by two beloved and award-winning sci-fi writers, this epistolary romantic novel tells the story of two time-traveling rivals who fall in love.
  — Emily Burack, Town & Country, 20 Mar. 2022
• Its ingredients are a boxful of old letters stored in the attic of his house by a bookish and kindly uncle, his sudden death, and a niece who inherits the epistolary bounty.
  — John Banville, The New York Review of Books, 23 Sep. 2021
• There is an epistolary chapter that reads less like a series of emails than a diagram of human manipulation.
  — Lauren Mechling, Vogue, 21 Mar. 2022
• The shift from an epistolary narrative to a more dramatic staging of conversation slyly replicates the evolution of the novel as a form.
  — Merve Emre, The New Yorker, 31 May 2021
• Her main epistolary focus was always on interactions with her children, who (like Jackson) managed to see the world in all its freshness, horror and glory.
  — Scott Bradfield, Los Angeles Times, 14 July 2021
• So far, this is just like Gone Home, which is itself just like any number of epistolary novels, telling its story through letters, newspaper clippings, divorce agreements, diaries, and the like.
  — Matthew Dessem, Slate Magazine, 28 Apr. 2017
• An epistolary novel is structured by the pursuit of human connection, and in the case of Perks, the gesture is unvarnished in its earnest, almost puppyish, hopefulness.
  — Hazlitt, 4 May 2022
• But brands other than Netflix have started scoring PR points for their lawyers’ thoughtful epistolary approaches.
  — Joe Pinsker, The Atlantic, 21 Sep. 2017
• O'Connor's epistolary correspondence is contained in The Habit of Being, a collection of letters written by the author throughout her lifetime.
  — Caroline Rogers, Southern Living, 24 Apr. 2021
• The Stray Letter: True to the epistolary age in which it was written, letters play a huge role in Farquhar’s plot, which grows especially confusing and diffuse after intermission.
  — Mike Fischer, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 3 July 2018
• And the use of text—not voiceover—allows the story to grow in elaborate and sometimes strange directions, a sort of epistolary sci-fi novel unfolding parallel to and intersecting with Marathon's gameplay.
  — Julie Muncy, Wired, 27 Aug. 2020

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