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Example sentences for "writes"

Lexicographically close words:
write; writeing; writen; writer; writers; writest; writeth; writhe; writhed; writhen
  1. Orm, in his spelling, doubles every consonant that has a short vowel before it; and he writes pann for pan, but pan for pane.

  2. He always writes in clear, crisp, pleasant, and manly English.

  3. He always writes clear, homely, and pure English,-- full of force and point.

  4. The character of his mind was, like Burke’s, combative and oratorical; and he writes with the greatest vigour and animation when he is attacking a policy or an opinion.

  5. The King hastily writes a few words, then gives the parchment back to L'Angely.

  6. With these odd guests about it is not surprising that the Budget writes off a certain sum every year for articles that have disappeared from the buffets.

  7. We are not tempted to exaggerate the guilt of his conduct, when he himself gives it up as a bad business, and writes himself down 'plain villain'.

  8. And so Phocas writes in the prologue to his Grammar: Since all things have been said by men of sense The only novelty is--to condense.

  9. Right then and there is where Joey writes to you for help.

  10. When I suffer in mind, stories are my refuge; I take them like opium; and I consider one who writes them as a sort of doctor of the mind.

  11. A relative of poor Voisin writes me that they are too poor to take charge of the child, and she must be sent to an orphan asylum.

  12. It is Norine now who writes in the great ledger with leather corners, while her adopted mother plies her needles on some embroidery.

  13. Another man writes a treatise of forty pages and gives you his views out of his own mouth.

  14. Miss Bronté writes "Jane Eyre," and fails ever afterwards to come up to her own standard.

  15. One person writes a novel of four hundred pages to convince you in a roundabout way, through thirty different characters, that a certain law, or the mode of administering it, is unjust.

  16. I have known few," writes her son, "in whom the religious instincts were so active and profound, and who seemed to me to enjoy so completely the life of God in the soul of man.

  17. It is a piece of music which relies entirely on its orchestration for its effects,” writes Evans in the Master Musicians Series.

  18. I am now wholly occupied with the new work,” he writes excitedly to his brother Anatol.

  19. I left the room without saying a word and went upstairs,” writes the distraught Tschaikowsky.

  20. I am hoping to collect, little by little, material for a symphony,” he writes to his brother on May 27.

  21. Here a new hand writes the records, untrammelled by any orthographic rules.

  22. The Factor at Fort Simpson, under date of November 22nd of the same year, writes to the Governor and Chief Factors at Montreal: "I now forward a specimen of the common white beads wanted for the trade with the Loucheux Indians.

  23. The only real accident of the summer writes itself on this page.

  24. The eminent Author writes to us as follows:--"How's this for a Saga?

  25. White, Gilbert, Darwin writes an account of Down in the manner of.

  26. He writes however so lucidly that he is very persuasive.

  27. Asa Gray writes to me that the outside of the pollen-masses is sticky in this genus; I find that the whole mass consists of pollen-grains immersed in a sticky brownish thick fluid.

  28. By a strange coincidence a stranger writes to me this day, making the very same suggestion.

  29. I do not believe any man in England naturally writes so vile a style as I do.

  30. Quatrefages writes to me that he believes they are equal in France.

  31. Darwin writes to Hooker about Indian appointment for.

  32. A soldier writes that a diary he kept was blown to bits by a shell.

  33. Just as untrue as all that the Temps writes about us.

  34. The sites chosen for the camps were mostly chosen on purely military grounds, and were often unsuitable; the medical and sanitary staff was at first insufficient,” writes Dr.

  35. Rosabella always writes of him as the most devoted of husbands; and dear little Floracita used to mention him as the kindest of brothers.

  36. A poetess, who writes for the papers under the name of Melissa Mayflower, had fastened herself upon our party in some way; and I suppose she felt bound to sustain the reputation of the quill.

  37. I had a letter from Madame a few days ago, and she writes that they are as happy as rabbits in clover.

  38. As the result of this enquiry, in the course of which the contents of the stomachs of hundreds of Indian birds were examined, Mr. Mason writes (page 338, loc.

  39. What is the exact duty of this second wife," writes Jesse, "I cannot make out.

  40. Its call," writes Stuart Baker, "is a very loud metallic double note, too harsh to be called a whistle.

  41. Luther teaches intolerance, and Calvin burns a heretic and writes in favor of the doctrine: Jure gladii coercendos esse hereticos.

  42. Tacitus writes that they could neither read nor write: "Literarum secreta viri pariter ac feminae ignorant.

  43. Nempe quod haec illis natura est omnibus una," writes Juvenal of their resemblance to one another.

  44. Thus writes John Stuart Mill, and what else can be said of the political activities of the Germans?

  45. With Rooseveltian enthusiasm he writes that the Germans consider it a crime "to set limits to population, by rearing up only a certain number of children and destroying the rest.

  46. Renan writes that he owes his pleasure in intellectual things to a long ancestry of non-thinkers, and he claims to have inherited their stored-up mental forces.

  47. He writes in his diary: "Alle diese Dinge sind mir nicht allein gleichgültig; sic sind mir widerwärtig.

  48. Sir Edward Grey writes on this subject: "I sometimes think that half the difficulties of foreign policy arise from the exceeding ingenuity of different countries in attributing motives and intentions to the governments of each other.

  49. When one writes of eating and drinking, it is hardly fair to make comparisons from a personal stand-point.

  50. Books are good enough in their own way, but they are a mighty bloodless substitute for life," writes Stevenson.

  51. Bedauernswert sei es allerdings, dass wir in unserem politischen Leben nicht mit gentlemen zu thun haben, dies sei aber em Begriff der uns überhaupt abgehe," writes Prince Hohenlohe in his memoirs.

  52. In the afternoon (writes Mr. Pearse) Lord Ava and I rode out to have afternoon tea with the officers of Major Goulburn's battery on Waggon Hill.

  53. The sarcasm (writes Mr. Pearse) seems the more pointed because we hear that the Boers believe us to be starving and unable to hold out much longer.

  54. Dr Tylor writes on this point as follows (Prim.

  55. Assize, clerk of, an officer "who writes all things judicially done by the justices of assizes in their circuits.

  56. A faster writes down his visions and revelations for a whole season.

  57. When she writes Greek and Latin nothing is more beautiful than her handwriting .

  58. We leave the heat of his faith to God's sole judgment, and the light of his good works to men's imitation," writes old Fuller.

  59. We decree," he writes in the statutes of Caius, "that no building be constructed which shall shut in the entire south side of the college of our foundation, lest for lack of free ventilation the air should become foul.

  60. Of his treatment at Pembroke he writes that it was such as might have been extended to "Mary de Valence in person.

  61. In barb'rous Latin doom'd to wrangle" writes Byron of the Cambridge of his time.


  62. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "writes" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.

    Some related collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    writes from; writes thus