WRITTEN in a Sentence

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295 example sentences for WRITTEN, such as:

1. He's written a new West End musical.
2. She was reading what was written there.
3. His book was in parts written in verse.
4. I don't deny that it is smartly written.
5. Today's specials are written on the board.

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 Meanings and Examples of WRITTEN
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written
 v.  (past participle) mark words on the surface of some material with a pen
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)
16  Sometimes taboo words are written with asterisks to avoid causing offence.
17  Education is one of the basic human rights written into the United Nations Charter.
18  No composer was considered worthy of the name until he had written an opera.
19  He's written a new West End musical.
20  Long essays, nay, whole books have been written on this.
21  I hope what I have written will be of benefit to someone else who may feel the same way.
22  Our study demonstrates beyond doubt that the play was written by Shakespeare.
23  Today's specials are written on the board.
24  His book was in parts written in verse.
25  Tom wanted to kick back at the people who had written so unfavorably about his new book in the newspapers.
26  The lack of a written constitution is a peculiarity of the British political system.
27  Ask the investor to check the correctness of what he has written.
28  They insisted that a guaranteed supply of Chinese food was written into their contracts.
29  Her novels are well written and commercial as well.
30  Passing a written exam is a prerequisite for taking the advanced course.