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Example sentences for "write about"

  • Bagehot somewhere draws a pathetic picture of crowds of potential authors who, having the time, the desire, and the ability to write, are yet unable for the life of them to think of anything to write about.

  • Yes, strawberries are delicious; but I am not going to write about strawberries.

  • Cream is also very nice, very nice indeed; but nothing shall induce me to write about cream.

  • I would have them all to myself, and drain them to the last drop: they will do to talk of or to write about afterwards.

  • But what does a dull, kind old country squire find to write about so often?

  • Only I can't help wondering what he does find to write about.

  • Clemens had been asked to write about it for the American papers, and he did so after his own ideas, illustrating some of his material with pictures of his own selection.

  • But I mustn't try to write about her--I can't.

  • Perhaps I write about as many as ever, but I pigeonhole them.

  • There is so much to write about that it makes me feel as if it was no use to begin.

  • I don't wonder he found it hard to write about such a thing; but it would have been better for me to have known.

  • It was not wise, of course; but he felt the loss of Arden so keenly, I can scarcely wonder that he could not bring himself to write about it.

  • For I have nothing to write about, and there is nothing at such a time as this that I find it more difficult to do.

  • I am glad you like my letter: however, I should not even now have had anything to write about, if I had not received yours.

  • Wherefore, since I have no subject left to write about, I will employ my customary phrase, and exhort you to the pursuit of the noblest glory.

  • What more is there for me to write about?

  • If I did not write about food I should have to write about cold, for I have no other subjects.

  • Please ask him not to write about you in every letter.

  • Yesterday, I wrote about myself and my home; to-day I want to write about my country.

  • The pictures of the most illustrious are in our hall,[1] but it would take too long to write about each of them.

  • There is nothing to write about; and it is a pity, for I may forget the Polish language.

  • There is another and even better reason why I find it pleasant to write about interpreters.

  • Sometimes I believe that it is the whole duty of a critic to write about interpreters, about the interpretative arts.

  • No mere music critic can hope to write about singing, violin playing, or piano playing without knowing singers, violinists, and pianists.

  • I am at a loss for more to write about; so 'tis as well that I am arrived at the bottom of my paper.

  • And now my dear Barbara fare well, I have not written such a long letter a long time, but I am very sorry I had nothing amusing to write about.

  • The matter is," said Brown, "that I don't seem to have anything to write about.

  • Anyway, I have something to write about now.

  • Soon many more people began to write about them, and especially about Arthur.

  • But, especially after Everyman, it is dull reading for little people, and it is not in order to speak of this play that I write about Skelton.

  • Such ways led to quarrels and strife while he was alive, and since his death they have puzzled every one who has tried to write about him.

  • More was not the first to write about a happy land where every one lived in peace and where only justice reigned.

  • Other authors, if they are going to write about life in an Ohio town, go to Italy to write about life in an Ohio town.

  • Some authors, if they are going to write about a slum, have to go and live in a slum while they are writing about a slum.

  • She warn't particular; she could write about anything you choose to give her to write about just so it was sadful.

  • There should be a law that no ordinary newspaper should be allowed to write about art.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    agitated voice; being used; goodly company; had failed; higher degree; later time; lift them; longer knew; saw nothing; still worse; taken out; too bad; well advised; write about; write again; write down; write letters; write more; write poetry; write the; write their; write them; write unto; writes from; writes thus; youngest brother