WRITTEN in a Sentence

Learn WRITTEN from example sentences; some of them are from classic books. These examples are selected from a corpus with 300,000 sentences, including classic works and current mainstream media. Some sentences also link to their contexts.
295 example sentences for WRITTEN, such as:
1. She was reading what was written there.
2. I don't deny that it is smartly written.
3. She has written off an account of her trip.
4. The book has a preface written by the author.
5. We recognize the necessity for a written agreement.
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Animal Farm by George Orwell
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 Meanings and Examples of WRITTEN
written
 a.  written as for a film or play or broadcast
 a.  set down in writing in any of various ways
Classic Sentence: (210 in 15 pages)
1  I don't deny that it is smartly written.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In PART I: CHAPTER II. THE SCIENCE OF DEDUCTION
2  The murderer has written it with his or her own blood.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In PART I: CHAPTER III. THE LAURISTON GARDEN MYSTERY
3  You certainly have the credit of being the first of us to find this out, and, as you say, it bears every mark of having been written by the other participant in last night's mystery.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In PART I: CHAPTER III. THE LAURISTON GARDEN MYSTERY
4  Now, a real German invariably prints in the Latin character, so that we may safely say that this was not written by one, but by a clumsy imitator who overdid his part.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In PART I: CHAPTER IV. WHAT JOHN RANCE HAD TO TELL
5  "The word RACHE, written in letters of blood," he said.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In PART I: CHAPTER VII. LIGHT IN THE DARKNESS
6  I remembered a German being found in New York with RACHE written up above him, and it was argued at the time in the newspapers that the secret societies must have done it.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In PART II: CHAPTER VI. A CONTINUATION OF THE REMINISCENCES OF JOHN W...
7  The Commandments were written on the tarred wall in great white letters that could be read thirty yards away.
Animal Farm By George Orwell
Context  Highlight   In Chapter II
8  The four pigs waited, trembling, with guilt written on every line of their countenances.
Animal Farm By George Orwell
Context  Highlight   In Chapter VII
9  Frederick had wanted to pay for the timber with something called a cheque, which, it seemed, was a piece of paper with a promise to pay written upon it.
Animal Farm By George Orwell
Context  Highlight   In Chapter VIII
10  At the foot of the end wall of the big barn, where the Seven Commandments were written, there lay a ladder broken in two pieces.
Animal Farm By George Orwell
Context  Highlight   In Chapter VIII
11  Without saying anything, she tugged gently at his mane and led him round to the end of the big barn, where the Seven Commandments were written.
Animal Farm By George Orwell
Context  Highlight   In Chapter X
12  For once Benjamin consented to break his rule, and he read out to her what was written on the wall.
Animal Farm By George Orwell
Context  Highlight   In Chapter X
13  "Only," here she turned with her head on one side to Isabella, "I'm sure she's written it."
Between the Acts By Virginia Woolf
Context  Highlight   In Unit 4
14  She was reading what was written there.
Between the Acts By Virginia Woolf
Context  Highlight   In Unit 5
15  For another play always lay behind the play she had just written.
Between the Acts By Virginia Woolf
Context  Highlight   In Unit 5
Example Sentence: (85 in 6 pages)
1  Her new book is several notches above anything else she has written.
2  The prologue to the novel is written in the form of a newspaper account.
3  She has written off an account of her trip.
4  He hasn't written to me recently - perhaps he's lost my address.
5  There are so many inaccuracies in this report that it will have to be written again.
6  The book was written in a style appropriate to the age of the children.
7  They demanded that the agreement be written in black and white.
8  We recognize the necessity for a written agreement.
9  Men's characters are not always written on their foreheads.
10  In an invoice the amount of money should be written both in words and in figures.
11  The loanwords written in your article were overdone.
12  I thought that article was written at a very superficial level.
13  The book has a preface written by the author.
14  Primarily a children's author, she has written books for adults.
15  The author whom you criticized in your review has written a reply.