Example Sentences

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Some federal courts have "writ clerks" who do nothing but go over prisoner petitions.

From Time Magazine Archive

Shirley Challoner, a blessing, would never have writ ten this book.

From Time Magazine Archive

I have writ an History of thy Experiment.

From "The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves" by M.T. Anderson

I have writ this morning A few lines to my mistress, your fair daughter.

From The Mirror of Taste, and Dramatic Censor, Vol. I, No. 4, April 1810 by Carpenter, S. C. (Stephen Cullen)

"I didn't say they could; only what you have writ down will be an old story before you get it off your hands."

From In the Van; or, The Builders by Price-Brown, John