writes

VERB

put language down on paper

Synonyms

STRONGEST

address compose create draft note pen print record rewrite scrawl scribble sign tell

STRONG

author autograph chalk commit communicate copy correspond engross formulate ghost indite ink inscribe letter pencil reproduce scribe transcribe typewrite

WEAK

bang out comp dash off draw up drop a line drop a note jot down knock off knock out note down push a pencil put in writing scriven set down set forth take down turn out write down write up

Antonyms

STRONGEST

destroy ignore ruin

STRONG

keep stop

WEAK

read

Example Sentences

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writes

He carries his survey up to the present day and writes adeptly about three currently active poets: Alice Oswald, Sasha Dugdale and A.E.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 28, 2026

“The ratio of how important biological taxonomy is to how silly it is,” Mr. St. George writes, “goes unmatched by any other branch of science.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 28, 2026

“As for death,” as the author writes in one of his brightest poems, “at the moment I think it strangely overrated.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 28, 2026

“Pound’s Cantos have their rewards, but the rewards come intermittently,” he writes of the poet’s eccentric magnum opus.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 28, 2026

She writes her number on a piece of paper and presents it to me for a few seconds.

From "The Wrong Way Home" by Kate O’Shaughnessy