Example sentences for: penned

How can you use “penned” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • When the Globe , the Enquirer 's , hired an airline stewardess to seduce Frank Gifford on hidden camera, Coz was shocked, shocked . He penned an op-ed for the New York Times condemning the Globe for making news rather than covering it.

  • Legendary places plucked from the pages of popular novels and the lives of fiction writers need little input from visitors to evoke their storied past: Graham Greene’s Hotel Sevilla, where “Our Man in Havana” went to meet his secret service contact, and Hemingway’s favorite watering holes (El Floridita and La Bodeguita del Medio) and the Hotel Ambos Mundos, where he penned much of For Whom the Bell Tolls.

  • Religious writers in antiquity penned notations that sometimes, we now know, were later absorbed wholesale into the primary text itself.

  • Now Scully has penned a New York Times Magazine piece on this topic.

  • (Capitol Hill security is treating the press with all the respect we have come to expect: We are penned behind Tensators, and anyone who dares step past the guide ropes is yelled at, then moved back by Capitol police officers.


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