How to Use fan letter in a Sentence

fan letter

noun
  • She sent a fan letter to her favorite star.
  • Hiro sent him a fan letter, and the two began writing to each other.
    Hua Hsu, The New Yorker, 27 Nov. 2023
  • This is not to say that the romance industry hasn't changed at all since Hailstock received that fan letter.
    Leah Asmelash, CNN, 12 Feb. 2023
  • With his mother’s help, Zeki wrote what can only be called a fan letter to Adkesson.
    Graydon Megan, chicagotribune.com, 20 Oct. 2020
  • Hell, even Martin Scorsese wrote director Anurag Kashyap a fan letter, and that guy knows his movies.
    K. Thor Jensen, PCMAG, 8 June 2022
  • Their bond began with a fan letter Dehner sent in 1976 upon spotting a drawing in a leather bar.
    R. Daniel Foster, Los Angeles Times, 2 Oct. 2019
  • These short essays are like ekphrastic poems, or odes, or elegies, or fan letters.
    Mary Ann Grossmann, Twin Cities, 28 Jan. 2024
  • Franzese, who played Damian, said he was inspired to come out publicly as gay after receiving a fan letter around the time of the movie's 10th anniversary.
    Hannah Yasharoff, USA TODAY, 4 Oct. 2020
  • After receiving a sweet fan letter from Summer, Nick decides to respond with a phone call, sparking the start of a friendship that’s lasted to this day.
    Jessica Radloff, Glamour, 31 July 2022
  • To further share the bounty, Jones hatched a plan: Anyone who cares to may come into shop and write a fan letter to Parton for free, in exchange for a piece of the memorabilia.
    Doug MacCash | Staff Writer, NOLA.com, 30 Jan. 2021
  • Sands received fan letters about that moment and reveled in the film’s commercial and critical success.
    Alexandra Del Rosario, Los Angeles Times, 27 June 2023
  • Those death threats that used to litter his mailbox became fan letters seeking autographs.
    Bob Nightengale, USA TODAY, 15 June 2019
  • After yet a second cancellation, a fan letter-writing campaign led to the show’s revival.
    Rebecca Keegan, HWD, 30 Mar. 2018
  • In the last couple of years, he’s visited more than 300 schools around the country, sometimes startling students who had written him fan letters with surprise visits in front of their lockers.
    Alexandra Alter, New York Times, 30 Jan. 2018
  • The show was immediately popular; at one point, Mr. Sarkisian was receiving 8,000 fan letters a month, each of which was answered by him or his wife.
    Tara Bahrampour, Washington Post, 30 June 2018
  • 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
  • In October 1979, Leonard Bernstein received a fan letter from a high school humanities teacher.
    Washington Post, 18 Mar. 2018
  • However, Blanco allegedly continued conducting drug trades from behind bars through her boyfriend, a dealer who’d sent her a fan letter in 1991.
    María Luisa Paúl, Washington Post, 3 Feb. 2024
  • But the show also got fan letters from many black readers who were grateful to receive any representation and who credited the actors with doing realistic dialect.
    Jeet Heer, The New Republic, 14 Apr. 2018
  • This is no mere fan letter; no mere exercise in soft-core intellectual erotica constructed for your amusement.
    Elisa Albert, Longreads, 24 May 2018
  • Years before, Daddy had uncharacteristically sent Fannie Flagg a fan letter.
    Leslie Anne Tarabella, al.com, 13 June 2019
  • His office and studio yielded many other illuminating artifacts, including fan letters and artworks.
    Valli Herman, Los Angeles Times, 27 Nov. 2023

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