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)."

  • 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."

  • I remember the pain exacted by Thatcherism in its early years, when half a century of disastrous socialist economics had wrought another mess of poverty, stagnation, and resentment.

  • Spanish-colonial touches such as garden patios, shaded balconies, and adornments of wrought iron gave the area its almost Caribbean air.

  • In smaller-scale works Corot wrought changes on a variety of more secular riparian subjects: ferrymen, fishermen, women washing laundry or tossing each other playfully into the current.


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