Example sentences for: wrought

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

  • Due to the current nature of the economy, and the effect that it has wrought on the legal employment situation, we decided that the latter course would be most advantageous to the graduating student body.

  • It’s still a preserve of the old-monied who occupy the Federal, Georgian, Greek Revival, and Victorian homes that have stoops, boot-scrapers, and wrought iron railings.

  • The French at Louisbourg wrought just as much mayhem among them through smallpox and typhus.

  • But whereas the changes wrought in French by the French Revolution were canceled by the Thermidorean reaction, in the newly formed and freshly named Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (more commonly called the USSR or, in Cyrillic, CCCP ) wholesale changes of toponyms, following changes of personal names, did not really set in till the Soviet Thermidor brought Stalin to dictatorial power.

  • While we snicker at rules banning Midol from junior high schools, we ignore the damage wrought by laws prohibiting selectively demonized drugs--notably marijuana, heroin, and cocaine (while allowing use of tobacco, alcohol, and Prozac).


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