writing

Example Sentences

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Oldman loves returning to “Slow Horses” every year and says that as long as Apple is willing to “keep writing those checks, I’m not ready to hang up my dirty raincoat just yet.”

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 1, 2026

Ockenden, the senior midwife writing this month's much-anticipated report, told us: "We have a whole long line of external reviews, probably conducted at significant expense, where the actions were simply not put into place."

From BBC • Jun. 1, 2026

“I am writing a little bit from that chip on my shoulder.”

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 1, 2026

In 2014 she enrolled at a local university, taking English literature classes and eventually obtaining a master’s degree in creative writing, according to her family.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 31, 2026

Stowe later claimed to have written as if in a trance, similar to the Spiritualists’ automatic writing: “I did not write it … God wrote it … I merely did his dictation.”

From "American Spirits" by Barb Rosenstock