How to Use letter in a Sentence
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What do the letters need to say?
—Mikey O'Connell, HollywoodReporter, 19 May 2026
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Phone calls give way to letters.
—Angelica Leicht, CBS News, 10 Apr. 2026
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Most letters came from the heart.
—Mark Dent, HubSpot, 26 Sep. 2025
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Words must be of four or more letters.
—Kathleen Saxe, Mercury News, 11 Jan. 2026
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Words must be of four or more letters.
—Kathleen Saxe, Mercury News, 9 Mar. 2026
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Words must be of four or more letters.
—Kathleen Saxe, Mercury News, 7 Mar. 2026
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Words must be of four or more letters.
—Kathleen Saxe, Mercury News, 1 Mar. 2026
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Words must be of four or more letters.
—Kathleen Saxe, Mercury News, 2 Mar. 2026
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Words must be of four or more letters.
—Kathleen Saxe, Mercury News, 28 Feb. 2026
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Words must be of four or more letters.
—Kathleen Saxe, Mercury News, 21 Feb. 2026
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Words must be of four or more letters.
—Kathleen Saxe, Mercury News, 16 Feb. 2026
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Words must be of four or more letters.
—Kathleen Saxe, Mercury News, 15 Feb. 2026
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Words must be of four or more letters.
—Kathleen Saxe, Mercury News, 8 Feb. 2026
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Words must be of four or more letters.
—Kathleen Saxe, Mercury News, 1 Feb. 2026
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Words must be of four or more letters.
—Kathleen Saxe, Mercury News, 31 Jan. 2026
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Words must be of four or more letters.
—Kathleen Saxe, Mercury News, 27 Jan. 2026
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Words must be of four or more letters.
—Kathleen Saxe, Mercury News, 1 Sep. 2025
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Words must be of four or more letters.
—Kathleen Saxe, Mercury News, 9 Jan. 2026
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Words must be of four or more letters.
—Kathleen Saxe, Mercury News, 7 Nov. 2025
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Words must be of four or more letters.
—Kathleen Saxe, Mercury News, 8 Nov. 2025
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Words must be of four or more letters.
—Kathleen Saxe, Mercury News, 29 Oct. 2025
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Words must be of four or more letters.
—Kathleen Saxe, Mercury News, 23 Oct. 2025
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Words must be of four or more letters.
—Kathleen Saxe, Mercury News, 15 Oct. 2025
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Words must be of four or more letters.
—Kathleen Saxe, Mercury News, 16 Oct. 2025
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Words must be of four or more letters.
—Kathleen Saxe, Mercury News, 26 Sep. 2025
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Words must be of four or more letters.
—Kathleen Saxe, Mercury News, 19 Sep. 2025
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Words must be of four or more letters.
—Kathleen Saxe, Mercury News, 12 Sep. 2025
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Words must be of four or more letters.
—Kathleen Saxe, Mercury News, 13 Sep. 2025
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Words must be of four or more letters.
—Kathleen Saxe, Mercury News, 30 Aug. 2025
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Words must be of four or more letters.
—Kathleen Saxe, Mercury News, 31 Aug. 2025
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Williams earned high grades, tested well, and lettered in two sports.
—Emma Seiwell, New York Daily News, 13 June 2026
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There are a variety of fonts and lettering styles to choose from, as well as colors.
—Rima Suqi, Forbes.com, 12 Apr. 2025
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Those aren’t bad odds in my book, which makes the thank-you letter a thumbs-up response to being rejected.
—Amy Lindgren, Twin Cities, 2 May 2026
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Goodrich also lettered in softball and track and field, earning all-state honors as a sprinter.
—Gary Bedore, Kansas City Star, 20 June 2025
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Besides football, Floyd lettered in basketball and track and field in high school.
—Christopher Kuhagen, Journal Sentinel, 17 Jan. 2024
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The sign had been hand-lettered by the tower’s architect, Mary Colter.
—Bay Area News Group, Mercury News, 2 July 2026
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The Leapfrog Group awards hospitals letter grades twice a year based on patient safety.
—Lisa Schencker, Chicago Tribune, 29 July 2025
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Cotton terry hoodies showcase each color in hue and name, with the logos on the front and colors’ names lettered on the back.
—Angela Velasquez, Sourcing Journal, 22 Aug. 2025
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The layout of the site looks somewhat like a curved and backwards letter L and is a tight fit, according to the letter.
—Nick Rosenberger, Idaho Statesman, 21 June 2024
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At Food Spot, they’re displayed in that style, but with the description lettered above in white, on a blue background.
—Lucas Kwan Peterson, Los Angeles Times, 4 Oct. 2023
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Williams played three seasons at Mizzou after lettering two years at Oregon.
—Quentin Corpuel, Kansas City Star, 4 May 2025
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These included stunning shots of Rihanna dancing around a bonfire, letter her hair fly in the beach breeze, and singing toward the waters.
—Rosa Sanchez, Harper's BAZAAR, 4 Nov. 2022
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Choose from 28 accent colors and include optional personalization with white and gold lettered beads to spell out their name.
—Maria Conti, Better Homes & Gardens, 25 Sep. 2025
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Kelce lettered in football, basketball and baseball at Cleveland Heights High School.
—ABC News, 27 May 2026
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Phil Bucklew Bucklew lettered three years on the football team and two years on the basketball team at Xavier in the 1930s.
—Shelby Dermer, The Enquirer, 19 July 2023
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Robinson lettered in four sports at UCLA before breaking baseball’s color barrier.
—John Marshall, Chicago Tribune, 7 Aug. 2023
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Lujack, who hailed from Connellsville, Pennsylvania, was only the third player in Notre Dame history to letter in four sports.
—Victoria Hernandez, USA TODAY, 25 July 2023
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The sign is approximately 10 inches wide by 15 inches tall, and has lettering approximately one inch tall.
—Natalie Wallington, Kansas City Star, 19 Jan. 2024
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Stone, who lettered in track, football and baseball at Bradley University, scored 31 touchdowns during his four seasons as halfback with the Bears.
—Marianne Mather, Chicago Tribune, 25 Apr. 2023
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At Stanford, Brodie lettered in football (1954-56) and golf (1955-56).
—Cam Inman, Mercury News, 23 Jan. 2026
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Quill Pen Taylor mostly sits out the album, playing the role of the silently supportive bridesmaid, lettering the invitations alone by candlelight.
—Rob Sheffield, Rolling Stone, 7 Oct. 2025
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The results can be startling, as when the artist produces a sort of board game in which such conspiracy-buff tropes as crop circles, crisis actors and Pizzagate are lettered around a core filled with churning internal organs.
—Mark Jenkins, Washington Post, 17 Mar. 2023
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At the time, Connor Sturgeon was entering the school as a 6-foot-4 starter who’d lettered in track and basketball as a sophomore, while a younger brother was in the middle school feeder program.
—The Courier-Journal, 16 Apr. 2023
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Dain Blanton—At Pepperdine, lettered for four seasons (1991-94) as an outside hitter.
—Assistant Sports Editor, Los Angeles Times, 18 June 2026
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The comics are illustrated by Hitch (The Ultimates), colored by Brad Anderson, and lettered by Rob Leigh.
—Mike Fleming Jr, Deadline, 14 Nov. 2025
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Felder, an architect with an obsessive streak, thought extensively about the design of his banner, ultimately opting for a white sign with lettering the precise shade of blue as the Star of David on the Israeli flag.
—Eyal Press, New Yorker, 30 Mar. 2026
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Samia Bzioui evokes her Moroccan roots, international migration and an in-between sensibility with a midair piece comprising a bundle of cotton hanging on a pole lettered with Arabic text.
—Mark Jenkins, Washington Post, 31 Mar. 2023
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Coronado Unified redacted all summaries of student interviews from the report for privacy and safety reasons, the district said, even though Sobel had already changed students’ and parents’ names to letter identifiers to mask their identities.
—Kristen Taketa, San Diego Union-Tribune, 21 Dec. 2021
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Often letters to the editor are scathing missives reflecting one’s political beliefs or unhappiness with a segment of society – the wealthy, the IRS, the insurance companies, law enforcement, etc.
—Letters To The Editor, Hartford Courant, 24 Feb. 2026
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Maldonado said his piece in the battle was an ode to Mark Bodē, who was a graffiti and comic book artist who influenced the 1980s graffiti scene, with New Wave Artists lettering within the piece.
—Alexandra Kukulka, Chicago Tribune, 2 Sep. 2025
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