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Example sentences for "write home"

  • A little sloppy under foot perhaps, but really nothing to write home about.

  • Rifle fire was a little less desultory now, but nothing to write home about.

  • We ought to bargain they don't take any more notice of this affair, or write home about it," suggested Shankley.

  • The only thing," said Jack, "is to write home to your uncle.

  • The meal ended, we again went down to our desks, where sheets of paper were distributed to each, and we were ordered to "write home"!

  • I said I would like to write home, and my soft-voiced nurse thereupon brought me paper and envelope.

  • Prisoners in other hospitals and prison camps may have been allowed to write home even at that time.

  • Like myself, none of these fellows was allowed to write home, and I don't suppose they will be--until they are set free.

  • He'd no time to write home, even if he could have got money from there, and there was no one here he could borrow of.

  • What a letter he would have to write home to-morrow!

  • I say, I shan't have time to write home to-day.

  • Since his arrival here he has received intelligence which has filled him with much uneasiness, and he has entreated me to write home in conjunction with himself respecting the affair, with which indeed I am in some degree concerned.

  • The money may still come, but I have given up all hopes of it, and am compelled to write home, though what I am to do till I can receive your answer I am at a loss to conceive.


    • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "write home" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.


    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    another proof; bear upon; been left; conceal from; eight millions; employ them; free person; great ones; polar star; sais pas; secret police; stood motionless; taken down; telling her; usually said; what power; write again; write down; write home; write like; write poetry; write their; write them; write unto; writes from; writes thus