How to Use pen name in a Sentence

pen name

noun
  • This is the reason that a lot of us choose to write under pen names.
    Jason Parham, WIRED, 13 Sep. 2023
  • Many of these works were signed with a pen name: Ben Hoffman.
    Kriston Capps, Washington Post, 13 June 2022
  • But Kiwi Maple Sapphire makes for a heck of a pen name.
    Perri Ormont Blumberg, Southern Living, 15 Oct. 2019
  • Bud Billiken, the pen name of the paper’s youth columnist.
    Ron Grossman, Chicago Tribune, 5 Feb. 2023
  • Fomin, a 40-year-old whose pen name was Vladlen Tatarsky, was born in eastern Ukraine.
    Robyn Dixon, Washington Post, 3 Apr. 2023
  • The show is based on a series of books written by vet Alf Wight under the pen name of James Herriot.
    Manori Ravindran, Variety, 8 Jan. 2022
  • The cookie clue hinted to Rourke's pen name, Eddie Cook.
    Leah Rocketto, Woman's Day, 1 Oct. 2020
  • Mr Kinkonda, who goes by his pen name of Chéri Chérin, seems as worn down as the surroundings.
    The Economist, 14 Sep. 2017
  • His most famous pen name, W.E.B. Griffin, arose in the early 1980s.
    Kelly Kazek, AL.com, 12 Mar. 2018
  • William Bowery—a pen name that is all but confirmed to be Joe Alwyn—is a cowriter on this track.
    Ana Escalante, Glamour, 21 Oct. 2022
  • Myrtle’s pen name was Olive Green for cookbooks and best-sellers.
    Brenda Yenke, cleveland, 5 May 2022
  • Drew Cloud’ was a pen name that represented a group of us writing these posts.
    Adam Harris, The Atlantic, 26 Apr. 2018
  • Mark Hamilton is his pen name, and his real name is Wallace Ward, who is 64 and lives in Nevada.
    Dallas News, 2 Mar. 2023
  • Hank Early is the pen name of author John Mantooth, listed above.
    Kelly Kazek | Kkazek@al.com, al, 5 Oct. 2020
  • Valen, the pen name of Jerry Peterson, writes the John Santana series.
    Mary Ann Grossmann, Twin Cities, 1 Sep. 2019
  • Hooks wrote under the pen name bell hooks after her great-grandmother Bell Blair Hooks.
    Michelle Garcia, NBC News, 15 Dec. 2021
  • Most were rejected, but a few were published, under a pen name.
    Clay Risen, New York Times, 25 Jan. 2024
  • Zhang Ping, better known by his pen name, Chang Ping, was one of China’s most famous journalists in the 2000s.
    Li Yuan, New York Times, 4 June 2024
  • Shiki took his pen name from the cuckoo, whose song is said to resemble the sound of someone coughing up blood.
    Christopher Benfey, The New York Review of Books, 25 June 2020
  • His father, Jonathan, was a writer who used Finn as a pen name and then legally changed the family name to Finn when David was in high school.
    Glenn Rifkin, New York Times, 19 Oct. 2021
  • In prison, Porter wrote fourteen stories and began using O. Henry as a pen name.
    The New Yorker, 28 June 2021
  • The twist is that, as the podcast's title suggests, the series was written by Morton’s father, who goes by the pen name Rocky Flintstone.
    Brianna Wellen, Chicago Reader, 6 Mar. 2018
  • Twain's pen name originates from his time working with steamboats: Twain refers to a measure of length known as two fathoms (12 feet).
    Logan Sykes, Town & Country, 30 Nov. 2015
  • Yale class of ‘99—and the writer of eight romance novels, all published under the pen name Selena Montgomery.
    Elizabeth Kiefer, Glamour, 27 Apr. 2018
  • His poems, written under the pen name K Za Win, were full of a vigor that belied his monastic background.
    New York Times, 25 May 2021
  • The movie is based on a book by the same title by a popular Italian author whose pen name is Felicia Kingsley.
    Nick Vivarelli, Variety, 15 July 2024
  • The comics industry has a long history of people adopting pen names.
    Asher Elbein, The Atlantic, 17 Dec. 2017
  • Baggott is the author of more than two dozen books to date, both under her own name as well as various pen names like Bridget Asher.
    Joe Otterson, Variety, 27 July 2023
  • Spartacus Falanghina is the pen name for a former liquor broker turned author.
    The Salt Lake Tribune, 25 Feb. 2021
  • Pocket Books Scandalized, a debut from the pen name of a still unnamed best-selling author, lives up to its title.
    Maureen Lee Lenker, EW.com, 30 Aug. 2022

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