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Example sentences for "wrote home"

  • On one occasion, when he was ill, he wrote home: "My brother is so attentive and takes so much pains to entertain me that I almost forget my 'illness.

  • On this occasion he wrote home: "We met the enemy on foot and horseback, and our artillery made such execution that we thought we had put him to flight, but God would not have it.

  • While on the Rhine he wrote home: "We have unexpectedly fallen into collision with the arms of the Spaniards," who were in the pay of Maximilian of Bavaria and not that of Spain.

  • Nothing would keep me back, and I wrote home to my own mother, asking if Micky's Jim wanted any new men to accompany him to Scotland.

  • Now and again I wrote home, and sent a few pounds to my people, but I never sent them my address.

  • Once, eighteen months after I had left Braxey Farm, I wrote home to my own people.

  • He wrote home that, to give a true picture of France, he would have to paint it like an Indian warrior, black and red.

  • Afterwards, when these men fell with the Gironde, he wrote home: "I mentioned to you the plan of a speculation on drafts to have been made on the United States, could my concurrence have been procured.

  • He wrote home that he could not tell "whether the king would live through the storm; for it blew hard.

  • On July 11 I wrote home as follows: "We had Major Brighten and Captain Blamey in for dinner yesterday evening.

  • On July 18 I wrote home as follows: "More gas shells came over last night.

  • The following letter which I wrote home from my cell (which I shared with three other second-lieutenants, Gilbert Verity, Bernard Priestley and H.

  • The next day (July 20) I wrote home as follows: "We actually had no working parties to take last night.

  • On March 15 he wrote home: 'Yesterday I presented my son, with whom I am very well pleased, to all the royal family.

  • I am learning German,' he wrote home, 'and I am reading more Greek than I have read for three or four years.

  • He attended a levee at Alexander Brongniart's, "who among the English geologists has the highest reputation both for knowledge and agreeable manners of all the French savans," he wrote home to his father.

  • He wrote home, that from one of his windows he could see "the whole chain of the Tyrolean Alps, as far as Appenzell.

  • Delightful days," he wrote home, "loitering around all day long, and talking with grayheads who were boys and girls with me thirty or forty years ago.

  • It goes crescendo with my popularity here, and this gives me much pleasure," he wrote home, at the end of the fortnight, and on the eve of starting to return.

  • He wrote home that in spite of father, mother, relations and friends, a musician he would be and nothing else.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "wrote 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:
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