Examples of pen name in a Sentence
Samuel L. Clemens is better known by his pen name “Mark Twain.”
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Based on the classic Stephen King novel written under pen name Richard Bachman, The Running Man is set in an oppressive future where the government controls the media.
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Justin Kroll, Deadline, 20 Dec. 2024
Swanson, whose pen name is Julie Marie, was born in Far Rockaway, New York, and moved to Oceanside in the early 1980s with her two sons.
—Linda McIntosh, San Diego Union-Tribune, 21 Feb. 2025
This is an absorbing historical novel about Koreans and first-generation Korean Americans in Los Angeles, written by the Korean American Gloria Hahn (under a pen name), who died of breast cancer in 1987, shortly after it was published.
—The New Yorker, 19 Feb. 2025
The prize's namesake, author Mark Twain, divined his pen name from a navigation term used by steamboat captains on a river.
—Anna Kaufman, USA TODAY, 16 Jan. 2025
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Justin Kroll, Deadline, 20 Dec. 2024
Swanson, whose pen name is Julie Marie, was born in Far Rockaway, New York, and moved to Oceanside in the early 1980s with her two sons.
—Linda McIntosh, San Diego Union-Tribune, 21 Feb. 2025
This is an absorbing historical novel about Koreans and first-generation Korean Americans in Los Angeles, written by the Korean American Gloria Hahn (under a pen name), who died of breast cancer in 1987, shortly after it was published.
—The New Yorker, 19 Feb. 2025
The prize's namesake, author Mark Twain, divined his pen name from a navigation term used by steamboat captains on a river.
—Anna Kaufman, USA TODAY, 16 Jan. 2025
See All Example Sentences for pen name
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“Pen name.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/pen%20name. Accessed 21 Apr. 2025.
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