How to Use fan letter in a Sentence

fan letter

noun
  • She sent a fan letter to her favorite star.
  • This is why the fan letters in Blue Roses feel so alive.
    — Literary Hub, 26 June 2026
  • Scott may have sent Patton a fan letter of sorts that moved the singer to respond.
    — Jason Pettigrew, SPIN, 11 June 2026
  • Hiro sent him a fan letter, and the two began writing to each other.
    — Hua Hsu, The New Yorker, 27 Nov. 2023
  • These short essays are like ekphrastic poems, or odes, or elegies, or fan letters.
    — Mary Ann Grossmann, Twin Cities, 28 Jan. 2024
  • The fan letter is not merely evidence that Williams mattered.
    — Literary Hub, 26 June 2026
  • Among other things, the team brainstormed ways to add comedic zest to a best man’s speech, a fan letter, a sermon and an apology.
    — Todd Spangler, Variety, 1 May 2026
  • 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
  • Those death threats that used to litter his mailbox became fan letters seeking autographs.
    — Bob Nightengale, USA TODAY, 15 June 2019
  • The commercial has a young girl who wants to write a fan letter to her hero, who’s an Olympic gold medalist or something like that.
    — Sean Illing, Vox, 10 Oct. 2024
  • Something about a fan letter Marissa is said to have written 30 years ago this summer.
    — Steve Buckley, New York Times, 5 June 2026
  • After Ciba, a fan letter looks less like a footnote to greatness and more like a scene of recognition.
    — Literary Hub, 26 June 2026
  • On the table in front of her was a fan letter from an 80-year-old man who described himself as a gay Democrat.
    — Jacob Bernstein, New York Times, 9 Mar. 2024
  • Marissa’s fan letter was the byproduct of a clever marketing campaign by the Blue Ox.
    — Steve Buckley, New York Times, 5 June 2026
  • 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
  • After yet a second cancellation, a fan letter-writing campaign led to the show’s revival.
    — Rebecca Keegan, HWD, 30 Mar. 2018
  • 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
  • Hell, even Martin Scorsese wrote director Anurag Kashyap a fan letter, and that guy knows his movies.
    — K. Thor Jensen, PCMAG, 8 June 2022
  • 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
  • Cyrus’ mom, Tish, brought out dozens of outfits, fan letters and scrapbooks from the archives, and Disney re-created the sets of the Stewart house.
    — Ethan Shanfeld, Variety, 18 Mar. 2026
  • Well, her father decides to ask Gemini, a chatbot, to write a fan letter to McLaughlin-Levrone.
    — Jason P. Frank, Vulture, 2 Aug. 2024
  • Seeing Yungblud’s fans led Bell to getting access to hundreds of fan letters to Eddie, which became a key component of the film.
    — Rafa Sales Ross, Variety, 26 June 2026
  • 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
  • Using artificial intelligence to compose a social media post in the wake of a tragedy, or using it to write a fan letter to an Olympic athlete, comes off as insincere.
    — Gayle Rogers, The Conversation, 17 Mar. 2026
  • Many readers addressed their fan letters not to the author, Betty Smith, but to her main character, Francie Nolan, a dirt-poor tenement child with big dreams.
    — Perri Klass, The New Yorker, 30 Dec. 2024
  • His office and studio yielded many other illuminating artifacts, including fan letters and artworks.
    — Valli Herman, Los Angeles Times, 27 Nov. 2023
  • 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
  • Google's new ad for AI, featuring a dad using the Gemini chatbot to help his daughter write a fan letter to an Olympic gold medalist, is roiling the internet.
    — Megan Morrone, Axios, 31 July 2024

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