Example sentences for: writ

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

  • Prepare To Win is this passage writ large.

  • 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.

  • Sure, this suspense may evaporate with the first round of stumping and baby-kissing--it could become Giuliani-Messinger redux, or D'Amato-Schumer writ larger and uglier.

  • In his crime bill, passed in 1994, he went further than any Republican president would have dared to restrict habeas corpus, the writ by which state prisoners, including those on death row, can get their cases reviewed by federal courts.

  • Does his notion of "civilizations" as tribes writ large make sense?


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