Sentence examples for proper letter from inspiring English sources
Just two weeks later, I received my first proper letter in the post.
Afterward, Vujosevic wrote his mother the first proper letter he'd ever written her, asking that it be read at his father's grave.
When was the last time you received a proper letter through the letterbox, or sat down to write one yourself, on coloured Conqueror paper?
The only trouble is that once she has read these notes – they are so personal, so heartfelt, so tender – she cannot resist sending a proper letter back.
They include spitting, peeing in the street ("parish hall for sure, and £100 fine"), swearing at police ("a proper letter of apology, not just two lines") and cycling on the pavement.
First class postage stamp, 41p from a Post Office near you Buy of the day, inspired by Sue Perkin's campaign to have us all writing actual proper letters, declares this to be Stationery Week.
The only person left who seems to write proper letters is Prince Charles, in the news again for his famously illegible "black spiders" to ministers – a practice that, if his sons were ever to adopt, they would surely pursue by email.
And it will take a long time to overcome years of bad publicity, like a line in the Lonely Planet Bolivia travel guide that warns of the dangers of hiking through remote stretches of the Isiboro-Secure National Park "unless you have all the proper letters of recommendation from people higher up in the coca growers' association".
Orthography, which promotes the practice of writing words with the proper letters according to standard usage and conventionally correct spelling, is further complicated by the use of Greek or Latin words, each with their own linguistic peculiarities.
It's very important to the final solution that the correct words are crossed out and the proper letters are left unmarked.
