How to Use epistle in a Sentence

epistle

noun
Definition of epistlenext
Synonyms for epistlenext
  • He penned lengthy epistles to her.
  • St. Paul's Epistle to the Romans.
  • To be clear, this is not a fetishized epistle of black women.
    — Tunde Wey, San Francisco Chronicle, 15 Dec. 2017
  • This kind of aphorism fills the space left not only by the epigram but by the epistles once exchanged by friends with time to be funny.
    — Adam Gopnik, The New Yorker, 15 July 2019
  • Consider the question of the authorship of Paul’s epistles.
    — Barton Swaim, WSJ, 9 July 2019
  • Claiming to only write when God is present, his studious epistle to the streets will galvanize hearts as well as viral streams.
    — Bianca Alysse, Billboard, 14 Nov. 2017
  • And the focus wasn’t to be on the 39th president’s birthday, but rather on his lesson for the week, a meditation on the first chapter of the Apostle Paul’s epistle to the Galatians.
    — Jonathan Cheng, WSJ, 1 Oct. 2017
  • The release of a previously unseen Comey epistle could excite official Washington just as much – if the prose of the sequel holds up to the original.
    — Chad Pergram, Fox News, 8 June 2017
  • But just as much, the later Murillo self-portrait is a rejoinder to that earlier one — a courteous but resigned epistle from an older artist to his younger self.
    — Jason Farago, New York Times, 2 Nov. 2017
  • Tightly clutched and prominently displayed even by those who despise him, the epistles have become keepsakes and mementos for hundreds of people across the country.
    — Michael Barbaro, New York Times, 2 June 2016
  • Nearly everything that worked so well the first time falls apart in the new series, which becomes a languorously long, frequently cryptic epistle on the sin of letting style conquer substance.
    — Washington Post, 12 Jan. 2020
  • But in 2018, with panic over Trump’s travel bans in full effect, the anti-migratory epistle resonates differently.
    — Constance Grady, Vox, 30 Apr. 2018
  • Garrison Keillor unleashed his satirical pen again this week, writing a paranoid epistle in the style of his favorite political target: President Donald Trump.
    — Cohen Peart, The Denver Post, 13 Mar. 2017
  • An epistle from space, written by an older and wiser society, could be detected by our radio telescopes; the aliens might then invite us to join a galactic federation of enlightened peers who communicate in a universal tongue.
    — Adam Mann, The New Yorker, 3 Oct. 2019

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