Use writing in a sentence
Sentences starting with writing
- Writing of his work on the Adirondacks, he says, "If I should ever live to get this wonderful thing written, I expect it will show one thing, if no more; and that is, that every thing has an opposite. [4]
- Writing them here was like the bursting of an imprisoned stream; it was relaxing the ceaseless eye of vigilance; freeing an imprisoned personality. [11]
- Writing was his trade; the returns from it seldom excited him. [5]
- Writing of himself to the Chevalier on one occasion, he laid bare with a merciless honesty his nature and his career. [11]
- Writing wanders from the matter. [11]
- Writing seemed a relief to him, for he was more cheerful afterwards. [11]
- Writing is a rather precarious thing these times. [5]
- Writing always interested him, and, until he understood it, he wanted to hold the pen. [4]
- Writing was a great pleasure, and though my productions at school were far too irregular for me to call them good, I was certainly the best declaimer. [10]
- Writing is the enemy of man. [11]
Sentences ending with writing
- What are you writing? [5]
- There is no writing. [11]
- We are inundated with a flood of weak writing. [4]
- Until then I will practise my music, and study the treatise on harmony that you have begun writing. [10]
- He wrote only when he felt like writing. [9]
- His letters home were still infrequent, but this was something worth writing. [5]
- But his uncle was writing! [5]
- She picked it up, and, as she did so, involuntarily observed the writing. [11]
- The assignment which the General is now exhibiting purports to have been by Anderson in writing. [7]
- An instant later the figure of a woman, deeply veiled, stood within the room, beside the table where he had been writing. [11]
Short sentences using writing
- I have--I am writing something. [4]
- The experience of writing letters. [6]
- A Boswell, writing out himself! [6]
- No, no writing, monsieur. [11]
- The writing is mine. [10]
- Did that writing concern him? [5]
- What could he be writing? [5]
- Nowadays they are always writing! [2]
- Author writing, jacks? [6]
- She was writing. [11]
Sentences containing writing two or more times
- At the end of their consultation, which was very brief, the Notary pointed to the writing materials on the table, and informed Mr Brass that if he wished to make any statement in writing, he had the opportunity of doing so. [12]
- My conscience blisters me for not writing you, but it has ceased to abuse me for not writing other folks. [5]
- The writing mentioned in the last paragraph was his article 'The Death of Jean,' his last serious writing, and one of the world's most beautiful examples of elegiac prose.--[Harper's Magazine, Dec., 1910,] and later in the volume, 'What Is Man and Other Essays. [5]
- In the 8th century there was a further abridgment of the hieratic writing, which was called the demotic, or people's writing, and was used in commerce. [10]
- A young man can get rid of the presumption against him afforded by his writing verses only by convincing us that they are verses worth writing. [6]
- I am just as busy as I can be --am still writing for the Galaxy and also writing a book like the "Innocents" in size and style. [5]
More example sentences with the word writing in them
- Please give me your opinion in writing on this question. [7]
- Turning to the young reporter, Mr. Hill, who had finished his writing, he said: "Bob, a little air will do you good. [9]
- Here is a young man writing to me from a Western college, and wants me to send him a list of the books which I think would be most useful to him. [6]
- He was eighty-three years old at the time of writing it. [3]
- But in these years he was writing little or nothing. [6]
- Marryat, writing forty-five years ago says: 'St. [5]
- He explained in writing, and was very explicit: 'I declare upon my word of honour that I did not say the words attributed to me. [5]
- I thought of writing you, when you nearly won last autumn. [9]
- I was just writing you to beg a thousand pardons. [5]
- Jaspar Hume was writing with numbed fingers. [11]
- He knew the writing very well--Jock Lawson's. [11]
- So, I am writing to you. [11]
- So I am writing to you not because I have anything to say, but because you don't have to answer and I need something to do this afternoon..... [5]
- Was she indeed writing to this unknown gentleman? [6]
- He has been writing to them. [11]
- The man is writing to the woman, and it has things that you have said to me--in a different way. [11]
- Clemens was presently writing to Redpath from Washington and points farther west. [5]
- P.S.-There's no use writing to me. [11]
- The idea of writing to me would have had to wait a long time if it waited until your brain originated it. [5]
- My mate's been writing to me about you. [11]
- Somebody has been writing to me about "Oatmeal and Literature," and somebody else wants to know whether I have found character influenced by diet; also whether, in my opinion, oatmeal is preferable to pie as an American national food. [6]
- But he was writing to her often, he was talking to her freely about his perplexities, about leaving the office and trusting himself to the pursuit of literature in some way. [4]
- So I am writing this as a simple citizen. [5]
- Here I finished writing the second draft of the preliminary proclamation; came up on Saturday; called the Cabinet together to hear it, and it was published on the following Monday. [7]
- King Ptolemy was writing the history of the conqueror of the world, and needed the aged comrade of Alexander, the sole survivor who had held a prominent position in the great Macedonian's campaigns. [10]
- Has he been writing the Epistles of David to the Quakers? [11]
- How I hate writing such things! [6]
- Here I was, writing stories for my living and my reputation. [6]
- Charles Augustus Murray, writing some forty-five or fifty years ago, said--'The streets are narrow, ill paved and ill lighted. [5]
- Forgive me for writing so freely. [4]
- There was certainly writing on it--perhaps a charm which rendered him subject to her. [10]
- If Moliere were writing now, instead of saignare, purgare, and the other, he would be more like to say, Stimulare, opium dare et potassio-iodizare. [3]
- M'sieu' Nic's been writing long letters from Montreal. [11]
- When I stopped writing last evening at the summons of the General, I was about to tell you something of the battle of Bentonville on Tuesday last. [9]
- I was still writing it when Michael Clones came up the drive to tell me you and your mother were here. [11]
- But instead of writing it clown, the man merely stared at him, while the fat creases in his face deepened and deepened. [9]
- On she went, writing incessantly for three weeks; by which time she had carried her heroine away from Thornfield, and was herself in a fever which compelled her to pause. [14]
- It's the worst writing I ever saw. [5]
- Six days after writing his letter Shelley and his wife were together again for a moment--to get remarried according to the rites of the English Church. [5]
- She herself, in writing her books, was solicitous on this point. [14]
- Mr. Penhallow was writing hard at his table, not thinking of him, it was plain enough. [6]
- These describers are writing for the "general," and so, in order to make sure of being understood, they ought to use words in their ordinary sense, or else explain. [5]
- I have been writing chiefly from Naples and St. Petersburg, and now and then from Constantinople. [6]
- Tennyson is still writing at eighty, and Browning reached the age of seventy-seven. [6]
- He finds good writing and sound philosophy, passages of great force and beauty of expression, marred by obscurity, under assumptions and faults of style. [6]
- Mr. Daly was writing and had his back to me. [5]
- The amount of writing against it is no more test of its desuetude, than the number of religious tracts distributed in a given district is a criterion of its piety. [4]
- Mr. Chesterton, in writing about the American Revolution, observes that the real case for the colonists is that they felt that they could be something which England would not help them to be. [9]
- Possibly he contemplated writing a story with this idea as the theme, but He seems never to have done so. [5]
- If I were writing a poem you would expect, as a matter of course, that there would be a digression now and then. [6]
- If I were writing a novel, instead of a veracious chronicle, I should not have introduced it, for it is an anachronism. [4]
- Mark Twain was writing a great deal at this time. [5]
- So Clara is writing a Florence friend to take a look round among the villas for us in the regions near that city. [5]
- Yesterday I was writing a deep article on a sublime philosophical subject while such a conversation was going on in the room. [5]
- To read and write were still rare accomplishments in the country, and Dogberry expressed a common notion when he said reading and writing come by nature. [4]
- I wished to write to him, but I am afraid only you would tolerate my writing so much when I have nothing to say. [6]
- This caused fresh wrath, and he furiously crushed the topmost sheet, already half covered with writing, and hurled it on the floor. [10]
- Under the circumstances would not both Philip and Evelyn have been justified in disregarding the prohibition that forbade their meeting or even writing to each other? [4]
- Nothing in the world affords a newspaper reporter so much satisfaction as gathering up the details of a bloody and mysterious murder and writing them up with aggravating circumstantiality. [5]
- Lecturing was hard work, but he was under the "base necessity," as he called it, of constant labor, writing in summer, speaking everywhere east and west in the trying and dangerous winter season. [6]
- Clemens's enthusiasm for work was now such that he agreed with Redpath to return to the platform that autumn, and he began at once writing lectures. [5]
- While the minister withdrew to the writing table, the Emperor asked whether a trustworthy horseman could be had, since the Spaniard was disabled; and Reitzenstein, Beust, and Van der Kapellen, in whom implicit confidence could be placed, had been sent off that morning. [10]
- So it is with the art of writing, for letters are rudiments of pictorial representations. [1]
- If Judge Kelly will say in writing he wishes to so have him, I am willing for him to be discharged from his present position, and be so appointed. [7]
- I hope you will consider me as being really interested for Mr. Sutton and not as writing merely to relieve myself of importunity. [7]
- Compadre the brave, who stumbles along and never falls, I am sitting on your doorstep, and I am writing on your wall--if I had as much money as you I'd go to every bull-fight. [11]
- Think of our Whitcombs, and our Ainsworths and our Williamses writing themselves down in dilapidated French in foreign hotel registers! [5]
- During the period while he was engaged in writing it, his wife, who had seemed in perfect health, died suddenly of pneumonia. [6]
- This, then, was what happened when Jethro had heard of her dismissal--he had left Coniston without writing her a word and passed through Brampton without seeing her. [9]
- Vaudreuil and Montcalm were at variance, and Vaudreuil had, through his personal hatred and envy of Montcalm, signed the death-warrant of the colony by writing to the colonial minister that Montcalm's agents, going for succour, were not to be trusted. [11]
- It is not well; when writing an autobiography, to follow your ancestry down too close to your own time--it is safest to speak only vaguely of your great-grandfather, and then skip from there to yourself, which I now do. [5]
- It is not well, when writing an autobiography, to follow your ancestry down too close to your own time--it is safest to speak only vaguely of your great-grandfather, and then skip from there to yourself, which I now do. [5]
- He is the weigher, the philosopher among the gods, the lord of writing, of art and of learning. [10]
- But the surest way to stop writing about Rome is to stop. [5]
- They suspected it was writing, because those among them who knew how to read Latin and had a smattering of Greek, recognized some of the letters, but they could make nothing out of the result as a whole. [5]
- Just as I was writing these last words, I heard the cry of a young person, as it sounded, for help. [6]
- When the Lord was writing the laws on the tablets, a flock of wild geese flew across Mt. [10]
- The one who was writing and whom Boris addressed turned round crossly and told him Bolkonski was on duty and that he should go through the door on the left into the reception room if he wished to see him. [2]
- The 'Jumping Frog' was the first piece of writing of mine that spread itself through the newspapers and brought me into public notice. [5]
- William Dean Howells was in those days writing those vividly realistic, indeed photographic stories which fixed his place among American men of letters. [5]
- Mr. Jeff Davis was constantly writing him to take command of a corps in the confederate army, but Col. [5]
- Abner Briggs, Junior, was a great, hulking fellow, who had been bred to butchering, but urged by his parents to attend school, in order to learn the elegant accomplishments of reading and writing, in which he was sadly deficient. [6]
- Down into the very midst of her writing came the bolts of death. [14]
- She sought in vain in them for those evidences of spontaneous love, of delight in writing to her of all persons in the world, the eagerness of the lover that she recalled in letters written in other days. [4]
- For writing we used exclusively goose-quills, for though steel pens were invented soon after I was born, they were probably very imperfect; and, moreover, had to combat a violent prejudice, for at the first school we attended we were strictly forbidden to use them. [10]
- Sandwiched between his two great masterpieces, Tom Sawyer and Huck Finn, the writing of 1601 was indeed a strange interlude. [5]
- The old man turned musingly, and made motions of writing, a pleased look in his face. [11]
- It would be tried at other times and in other forms, but it never seemed to accommodate itself to a central idea, so that the good writing in it eventually went to waste. [5]
- It was a treatise on hieroglyphic writing, and was to interpret the various signs so far as was still possible, and make them intelligible to posterity. [10]
- Mr. Colfax was too well bred to inquire further; so he never found out that Mr. Brice was writing an account of the Convention and the speechmaking for the Missouri Democrat. [9]
- I have had too much writing to do, myself, to find all the time for reading and study I could have wished. [6]
- Snow mountains are too dear at the price .... For several years I have been intending to stop writing for print as soon as I could afford it. [5]
- Excuse me for to-day; there is a great deal of writing to be done for the almoner. [10]
- Tell the story to the world by writing to the newspaper at Quebec? [11]
- Dear Sir:--In regard to the time David Rankin served the enclosed discharge shows correctly--as well as I can recollect--having no writing to refer. [7]
- He contributed largely to that periodical, besides publishing various controversial sermons, and writing the "Memoir of Buckminster. [6]
- In a note to Mr. Rogers he said: "To put in my odd time I am writing some articles about Paul Bourget and his Outre-Mer chapters--laughing at them and at some of our oracular owls who find them important. [5]
- Please show this to Messrs. Harmon and Beckwith; and tell them they must excuse me from writing separate letters to them. [7]
- The Colonel turned to me as he sat writing down the names of the volunteers. [9]
- From Land's End to John O' Groat's is a long tramp, but that from Montreal to Hudson's Bay is far longer, and yet many have made it; more, however, in the days of which we are writing than now, and with greater hardships also then. [11]
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