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For WRITE, below is one of 403 sentences:
"I am NOT going to write to my mother," replied Marianne, hastily, and as if wishing to avoid any farther inquiry.

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 Meanings and Examples of WRITE
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write
 v.  create something for other people to read or use
 v.  produce a literary work
Classic Sentence: (210 in 15 pages)
1  He entreated me to write often.
Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 19
2  He composed heroic songs and began to write many a tale of enchantment and knightly adventure.
Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 2
3  A scroll so wide might not be deemed too expensive for Providence to write a people's doom upon.
The Scarlet Letter By Nathaniel Hawthorne
Context  Highlight   In XII. THE MINISTER'S VIGIL
4  "I am NOT going to write to my mother," replied Marianne, hastily, and as if wishing to avoid any farther inquiry.
Sense and Sensibility By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 26
5  Once Lucy thought to write to him, but then her spirits rose against that.
Sense and Sensibility By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 38
6  They will tell me I should write to the Doctor, to get Edward the curacy of his new living.
Sense and Sensibility By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 38
7  He wishes me most particular to write what larks.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In Chapter XXVII
8  Biddy," pursued Joe, "when I got home and asked her fur to write the message to you, a little hung back.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In Chapter XXVII
9  I write of her just as she was when I had gone to bed after this talk, and she came to bid me good night.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 2. I OBSERVE
10  We went arm-in-arm to the public-house where the carrier put up, and I promised, on the road, to write to her.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 3. I HAVE A CHANGE
11  And I'll write to you, my dear.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 4. I FALL INTO DISGRACE
12  'I shall certainly write to her,' I rejoined.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 5. I AM SENT AWAY FROM HOME
13  I see her, with her modest, orderly, placid manner, and I hear her beautiful calm voice, as I write these words.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 16. I AM A NEW BOY IN MORE SENSES THAN ONE
14  But whether I should write this apology, or deliver it in person, was a point of long debate.
Sense and Sensibility By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 44
15  But, at last I began, in a purblind groping way, to read, write, and cipher, on the very smallest scale.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In Chapter VII
Example Sentence: (193 in 13 pages)
16  The teacher divided the class and took one section to the library and left the other to write an article.
17  In his preface, the author says that he took eight years to write the book.
18  To avoid confusion, please write the children's names clearly on all their school clothes.
19  We are not prepared to write a blank cheque for companies that have run into trouble.
20  Life is a leaf of paper white, thereon each of us may write his word or two.
21  On the morning before starting the fast, write down your starting weight.
22  Think much, speak little, and write less.
23  I'll write it up on the board.
24  We aren't allowed to write in ballpoint at school.
25  She plans to write her memoirs.
26  Please write in ink, not in pencil.
27  Please write to confirm your reservation.
28  If you draw or write in pencil you can always rub out your mistakes with an eraser.
29  You shouldn't write such obscene things to humour their dirty interests.
30  When you fill in the form, please write clearly/legibly in black ink.