Examples of pen name in a Sentence
Samuel L. Clemens is better known by his pen name “Mark Twain.”
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Written and illustrated by Koyoharu Gotouge (a pen name for the anonymous author), Demon Slayer debuted in 2016 in the pages of Weekly Shonen Jump, a manga magazine.
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Randall Colburn, Entertainment Weekly, 17 Sep. 2025
The Long Walk, even by Stephen King standards, is quite old, written in 1979 under King’s pen name at the time, Richard Bachman.
—Paul Tassi, Forbes.com, 13 Sep. 2025
The artists tend to be reluctant influencers; many use pen names, and almost all prefer to use illustrations to depict themselves publicly.
—Matt Alt, New Yorker, 25 Aug. 2025
His third and current pen name is evidence of him fulfilling that debt to himself.
—Elise Brisco, Rolling Stone, 22 Aug. 2025
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Randall Colburn, Entertainment Weekly, 17 Sep. 2025
The Long Walk, even by Stephen King standards, is quite old, written in 1979 under King’s pen name at the time, Richard Bachman.
—Paul Tassi, Forbes.com, 13 Sep. 2025
The artists tend to be reluctant influencers; many use pen names, and almost all prefer to use illustrations to depict themselves publicly.
—Matt Alt, New Yorker, 25 Aug. 2025
His third and current pen name is evidence of him fulfilling that debt to himself.
—Elise Brisco, Rolling Stone, 22 Aug. 2025
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“Pen name.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/pen%20name. Accessed 1 Oct. 2025.
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