How to Use correspondence in a Sentence

correspondence

noun
  • Note the correspondence of each number to a location on the map.
  • The two men began a correspondence that would continue throughout their lives.
  • A book of the author's personal correspondence was published early last year.
  • A formal tone is always used in business correspondence.
  • Sometimes there is little correspondence between the way a word is spelled and the way it is pronounced in English.
  • Sometimes there are few correspondences between spelling and pronunciation.
  • E-mail correspondence has become extremely important for modern businesses.
  • They communicated by telephone and correspondence.
  • Some kinds of correspondence must be kept for at least a year.
    — Amanda Gokee, BostonGlobe.com, 27 Mar. 2023
  • In them were all of our correspondence.
    — Kimberly Bridson, Vogue, 14 Aug. 2025
  • All the correspondence went to the clerk's office, and was not sent on to the judge.
    — Bruce Vielmetti, Journal Sentinel, 1 Nov. 2022
  • Sargeant told me this fall, in the course of an email correspondence that lasted for weeks.
    — Anna Louie Sussman, The Atlantic, 7 Nov. 2025
  • Our correspondence was less about bookstores and more about books.
    — Ann Patchett, Harper's Magazine, 5 Jan. 2021
  • Expect a lot more of this kind of correspondence in the coming months.
    — Adam S. Minsky, Forbes, 13 Sep. 2021
  • This correspondence has only been read by Shere and by me.
    — Literary Hub, 15 Apr. 2026
  • Clock said the city has not received any formal correspondence from the state.
    — Tammy Murga, San Diego Union-Tribune, 9 Jan. 2024
  • The topics the two discussed in their correspondence were wide in scope.
    — Rachel Burchfield, InStyle, 9 June 2026
  • The Taurus new moon shapes your correspondence for the next six months.
    — Usa Today, USA Today, 16 May 2026
  • Phone calls go unanswered and correspondence takes almost a year to process.
    — Wsj Opinion, WSJ, 18 Mar. 2022
  • But the correspondences also show the gap left by their absence.
    — Lovia Gyarkye, The Hollywood Reporter, 8 Sep. 2023
  • The book is about a lonely boy who strikes up a correspondence with a children's book author.
    — Rebekah Riess, Jamie Gumbrecht and Alaa Elassar, CNN, 26 Mar. 2021
  • Banks are supposed to track correspondence between staff and clients.
    — Josh Mitchell, WSJ, 26 Jan. 2023
  • This is not the first public correspondence that the Band and the oil giant have had this year.
    — Caitlin Looby, Journal Sentinel, 11 July 2024
  • Lord Lovat has been gone for more than a month and must read this correspondence on the toilet.
    — Lincee Ray Published, EW.com, 22 Aug. 2025
  • And the founders did not explore the subject in detail in their own correspondence.
    — Peter Kastor, The Conversation, 13 Jan. 2025
  • Email correspondence shows that the number has grown to 27.
    — Jordan Green, Memphis Commercial Appeal, 6 Mar. 2026
  • Here’s a video from the correspondences’ dinner.
    — Baltimore Sun Staff, Baltimore Sun, 26 Apr. 2026
  • Clearly that letter wasn’t your run-of-the-mill correspondence.
    — Dominic Patten, Deadline, 31 Oct. 2024
  • Steinbeck argued for it in correspondence with his agent.
    — Jake Lundberg, The Atlantic, 8 June 2026
  • The subject of young women was a constant theme in their correspondence.
    — Gene Maddaus, Variety, 4 Feb. 2026

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