Example sentences for: wrought

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

  • In an otherwise thoughtful article, "Teen-age Midol Junkies," Wendy Kaminer says that "we ignore the damage wrought by laws prohibiting selectively demonized drugs--notably marijuana, heroin, and cocaine (while allowing use of tobacco, alcohol, and Prozac)."

  • The Sanskrit for `wrought silver' is the basis for rupee (India, Pakistan, Seychelles, Sri Lanka), rupiah (Indonesia), and rufiyaa (Maldives).

  • Indeed, the city’s distinct geography allowed most of its older neighborhoods to survive the terrible destruction wrought by the second atomic bomb to be dropped on Japan, on 9 August 1945 — despite the fact that the Nagasaki bomb was more powerful than the one dropped on Hiroshima three days earlier.

  • In a pitiless review in a recent New York Times Book Review , novelist Kathryn Harrison wrote that Farrow exaggerates the emotional damage wrought by an early bout with polio, unfairly vilifies Allen, and tries to "solicit sympathy in the court of public opinion."

  • Some of this synthetic fiber is wrought into velvet and its cousins plush and chenille, materials known to be man-made even when made of silk.


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