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Example sentences for "writing about"

  • Perhaps you might like to know what I am writing about.

  • Hearn did not ruin himself as a writer by writing about Japan.

  • Now Fastidius, writing about 430, in the time when intercourse with Gaul and Italy was still full, affords clear evidence that he knew, and on occasion used, the Vulgate.

  • Writing about something he intimately knows is a sound principle.

  • Hugh Walpole, that greatly gifted novelist, taught school after leaving Cambridge, and very sensibly began by writing about school-teaching.

  • There must be an end to writing about Claire, as though she were aught else than Mrs. Shelley's sister.

  • What can be drearier than when a plain matter-of-fact writer attempts to be animated, and tries to make his characters live by the easy but futile expedient of writing about them in the present tense?

  • It thus comes about that Johnson is every bit as interesting when he is writing about Sprat, or Smith, or Fenton, as he is when he has got Milton or Gray in hand.

  • Writing about him, as Symonds said, is enormously difficult.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "writing about" 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:
    backed chairs; extreme pain; faced round; fell into; grown person; had begun; having been the first; little things; many words; minister resident; pounds per square inch; proper quantity; saying nothing; specimens were; taking her; there shall; thousand things; three quarters; woollen cloth; working hypothesis; writing about; writing desk; writing from; writing history; writing paper; writing table