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
  • Clock said the city has not received any formal correspondence from the state.
    Tammy Murga, San Diego Union-Tribune, 9 Jan. 2024
  • But the correspondences also show the gap left by their absence.
    Lovia Gyarkye, The Hollywood Reporter, 8 Sep. 2023
  • Here and there on the walls were old Trouser Press covers and correspondence.
    Nick Paumgarten, The New Yorker, 15 Jan. 2024
  • The telegram to Friar Park provides the coda to the correspondence.
    Guy Martin, Forbes, 28 Feb. 2024
  • The scene is spartan: a cot, some books, a messy pile of correspondence, a collection of chintzy piggy banks.
    John Semley, WIRED, 16 Feb. 2023
  • In 1962, Jimmy Carter ran for a seat in the Georgia state Senate, and his wife took charge of all his campaign correspondence.
    Kevin Sullivan, Washington Post, 19 Nov. 2023
  • Later, the conversation turned to the more than 50 years of correspondence from fans that Blume preserved and are now archived at Yale.
    Angelique Jackson, Variety, 22 Apr. 2023
  • The correspondence eventually led to the creation of Franklin.
    Amy Amatangelo, Los Angeles Times, 15 Feb. 2024
  • Banks are supposed to track correspondence between staff and clients.
    Josh Mitchell, WSJ, 26 Jan. 2023
  • Heller spoke with Vulture in 2010 about her correspondence with her former movie son.
    Sarah Weldon, EW.com, 8 Mar. 2024
  • Thus began a correspondence, and a friendship, that lasted until Phil’s death three and a half years later, in 2014.
    Howard Fishman, Rolling Stone, 28 Apr. 2023
  • Keep any correspondence to this woman brief and don’t expect any sort of reply.
    Annie Lane, oregonlive, 17 Feb. 2023
  • But the company did not indicate in its correspondence with the state, a copy of which was reviewed by The Times, whether fire officials had done so.
    Shawn Hubler, New York Times, 20 Aug. 2023
  • Kobach followed the law by turning over his correspondence.
    Katie Bernard, Kansas City Star, 22 Mar. 2024
  • Lindsay Sage, Founder of Sage Admit, said in email correspondence.
    Dr. Marlena Corcoran, Forbes, 21 Feb. 2024
  • The young women started writing their names and addresses on slips of paper and tucking them inside the balls, paving the way for a pen pal correspondence.
    Annika Hipple, Smithsonian Magazine, 20 Dec. 2023
  • But the company’s recent statement is at odds with its correspondence with some states.
    Niha Masih, Washington Post, 6 Mar. 2023
  • The 62-year-old man from Magdeburg is not named in the correspondence in compliance with German privacy rules.
    Cnn.com Wire Service, The Mercury News, 7 Mar. 2024
  • This account has since been humbled by the memory of my in-box, which holds a much more extensive correspondence between me and Shortz.
    Anna Shechtman, The New Yorker, 18 Feb. 2024
  • Sandy Cheeks and Larry the Lobster even made appearances as on-field correspondences.
    Krystie Lee Yandoli, Rolling Stone, 14 Feb. 2024
  • The researchers were able to use the correspondence to predict where the eyes were going to look, after averaging out the ambient noise.
    IEEE Spectrum, 5 Dec. 2023

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