Example sentences for: penned

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

  • Think what the clever spoonerist can do with “the painting is foul art, ” or perhaps even better, fowl art . Could one resist tampering if Joyce had written “She was a bit of awful lass, ” or if Shakespeare had penned “Thy chatter is but showful wit!

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

  • But far more hilarious are those items penned by the Bard that were never intended to shock or amuse a future evil-minded generation such as ours with indelicate, let alone indecent, suggestiveness, Rex Harrison or no!

  • When Christopher Columbus disembarked on eastern Cuba on 27 October 1492, he quickly penned a note exclaiming that the land was “the most lovely that eyes have ever seen.”

  • In 1980, the historian Doris Faber penned a biography of the cigar-smoking Hickok in which she concluded that the two had not in fact been lovers, but 12 years later a biographer of Eleanor, Blanche Wiesen Cook, offered a starkly different assessment.


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