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Six example sentences with epistolary, each labelled with its topic.
Dracula is an epistolary novel, assembled from letters, diary pages and telegrams rather than a single narrator's voice.
Literature
Their epistolary friendship lasted forty years, though the two scientists met in person exactly twice.
History
The exhibition traces an epistolary exchange between two painters, printing each note beside the canvas it argued about.
Art
Seneca's philosophy survives mostly in epistolary form, more than a hundred letters to a friend on how to live.
Philosophy
The film is epistolary from start to finish, its story told entirely through letters read aloud over empty rooms.
Movies
The senator's epistolary habit, a handwritten reply to every constituent, filled six filing cabinets by her second term.
Politics
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