How to Use form letter in a Sentence

form letter

noun
  • The bank sent out thousands of form letters offering its credit card.
  • Two military officers had arrived on their doorstep to deliver Putin’s form letter and a medal.
    Elettra Pauletto, Harper's Magazine, 11 Dec. 2023
  • The form letter seemed to be saying that the rest of her money was on its way.
    Washington Post, 15 Apr. 2021
  • The form letter says your file had been locked, which is not the same thing as it being frozen.
    cleveland, 8 Dec. 2019
  • Ford said the letter is a form letter that he had been approved to use.
    Lauren Horsch, charlotteobserver, 26 Apr. 2018
  • Students are split into small groups to find sticks, and then form letters and words with the sticks.
    Teresa M. Pelham, courant.com, 23 Dec. 2017
  • But the goal is to assess what happened behind the scenes that led to these form letters.
    Laura Johnston, cleveland, 12 Sep. 2023
  • Many of the form letters voters receive look like junk mail and aren't even read, this side says.
    Stephen Koff, cleveland.com, 10 Jan. 2018
  • Just like in the original game, players use word tiles to form letters and earn points.
    Nina Derwin, Country Living, 27 July 2023
  • But the betting here is that the Chamber would have sent around a different form letter.
    Michael Hiltzik, latimes.com, 25 June 2018
  • Cruz responded with a form letter, directing her to call the consulate in Rio.
    Cindy Carcamo Staff Writer, Los Angeles Times, 15 Dec. 2020
  • The most poignant form letter is written in response to almost daily requests from activists all over the world.
    Andrew Marantz, The New Yorker, 16 Nov. 2020
  • The anti-rule letters—at least those that weren’t form letters—tended to be more emotional.
    Peter Coy, Bloomberg.com, 14 Dec. 2017
  • The form letters letting them go were delivered without warning by way of FedEx.
    James Hohmann, Washington Post, 19 Apr. 2018
  • The vice consul didn’t explain why there was no check by the line on the form letter indicating that the review remained under way.
    Jess Bravin, WSJ, 26 May 2018
  • The exam registrar sent Davis a form letter saying the office couldn’t find records of the four bar exams that Davis flunked in the 1960s, which would have entitled him to try again.
    Steve Rubenstein, SFChronicle.com, 4 Oct. 2020
  • The team also included a helpful, pre-written form letter that fans eager to attend the parade could use to get out of class or work.
    Matthias Gafni, San Francisco Chronicle, 20 June 2022
  • There is no time period for the quarantine, according to a form letter the health department shared with The Herald-Times.
    Michael Reschke, The Indianapolis Star, 1 Sep. 2020
  • However, their response to my original complaint was a form letter that didn’t even attempt to solve the problem.
    Dallas News, 27 Jan. 2023
  • The Committee for the Fiduciary Standard, a group that promotes the idea that advisors should put their clients' best interests first, has just such a form letter at thefiduciarystandard.org.
    Liz Weston, OregonLive.com, 11 Feb. 2018
  • The Committee for the Fiduciary Standard, a group that promotes the idea that advisors should put their clients' best interests first, has just such a form letter at www.thefiduciarystandard.org/fiduciary-oath.
    Liz Weston, latimes.com, 4 Feb. 2018
  • Somewhere in my attic is a form letter that The Post Magazine was sending out that summer to would-be contributors.
    Washington Post, 12 May 2021
  • After her call with the male Lyft representative, Robinson says, the company followed up via email with what seemed like a form letter.
    Tricia Nadolny, USA TODAY, 4 Sep. 2019
  • Of the 38 public comments whose authors disputed their provenance, 28 trace back to a form letter on the website of the Consumer Energy Alliance.
    Jake Zuckerman, cleveland, 11 Sep. 2023
  • Months after a half-dozen members resigned in protest of the Trump administration's position on health policies, the White House dismissed the rest through a form letter.
    The Washington Post, OregonLive.com, 30 Dec. 2017
  • The form letters likely originated from numerous sources organized by groups that were for or against the repeal of Title II.
    Jon Brodkin, Ars Technica, 30 Aug. 2017
  • The text of many comments was identical or nearly identical, the result of form letters that Americans could submit over the internet, Pew said.
    Bob Fernandez, Philly.com, 12 Dec. 2017
  • Strangers formed letter-writing campaigns and action networks.
    Washington Post, 12 Jan. 2020
  • Dozens of people submitted form letters written by that group opposing a previous bill in 2022.
    Sean Maguire, Anchorage Daily News, 12 Mar. 2023
  • Novo Nordisk even offers a form letter on its Wegovy website to help doctors request coverage.
    Tom Murphy, Anchorage Daily News, 16 Sep. 2023

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