Example sentences for: writ

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

  • I have few data to support me, and my stamina are not up to long, tedious research, but I have a hunch that media —the main agendum on many a pedant's plate these days—is well on its way to becoming a standard singular noun, except perhaps among hidebound literati and intransigent intelligentsia on various university campi, in style books, and in other blessed receptacles of holy semantic writ.

  • What I find fascinating about him is not the work, which may or may not be remembered in years to come, but rather the driving ambition so directed at what seems to me to be small causes writ large by advertising and the sheer claims he can make for them.

  • writ room the law library used by prisoners.

  • It is "so monumentally idiotic, frenzied and cheesy--the special effects look like Tonka toys writ large--that it re-sets the bar for the genre," says the Wall Street Journal 's Joe Morgenstern.

  • The concepts he invokes--"quiet faith," "mature patriotism," "ordinary duties," "morality writ small," "soft multiculturalism"--proclaim a preference (both his and his subjects') for the middle way.


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