Example sentences for: writer

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

  • A history of mad-cow disease by veteran science writer Richard Rhodes ( The Making of the Atomic Bomb ). Critics praise Rhodes' lucid explication of complex virology as well as his range--the book includes digressions on political and literary themes and a section on the scandal surrounding a Nobel Prize-winning expert on the disease who recently pleaded guilty to molesting a little boy.

  • Nor is it possible for a newspaper writer now to be as blunt as Royko was.

  • Putting outright, downright grammatical solecisms aside, it would be pertinent to reiterate my own attitude toward usage: as a linguist, I regard usage clinically and would no more criticize a writer or a speaker of any kind of English for “mistakes” than a doctor would criticize a patient for contracting appendicitis or the Malay waste-away; on the other hand, as a writer (albeit a poor one), I attend to matters of style (which includes usage and grammar, of course), not only in others' writing but my own.

  • He was reading a great deal, trying to establish his literary ancestry and ascertain precisely the kind of writer he could be.

  • The enthusiastic and scholarly wish to preserve the entirety of a given writer's work is understandable and even endearing to a point, but one of the frustrations of this collection is its repetitiveness.


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