verb
definition
To enclose in a pen.
verb
definition
To write (an article, a book, etc.).
adjective
definition
Winged; having plumes
Examples of penned in a Sentence
Uncle Alex has them penned up by the house right now.
The article was penned by our old Boston nemesis, Ethel Reagan.
The traditions of his Sunday parties have lasted unimpaired to this day, and the most pleasant pages penned by his biographer describe the politicians and the men of letters who gathered round his Tool hospitable board.
Dean penned a note to her aunt and Martha went inside to leave it, as Dean directed, in plain sight on the kitchen table.
In the words of an English officer, "The sun appearing upon the sea, I heard Nol say, ` Now let God arise, and let His enemies be scattered,' and following us as we slowly marched I heard him say, `I profess they run.'" Driven into the broken ground, and penned between Doon Hill and the ravine, the Scots were indeed helpless.
Flight first penned about it in The True Legend of St. Dunstan and the Devil; Showing how the Horse-Shoe came to be a Charm against Witchcraft.
On the 4th of May Milner penned a memorable despatch to the Colonial Office, in which he insisted that the remedy for the unrest in the Transvaal was to strike at the root of the evil - the political impotence of the injured.
Something of the same may be seen in Rutilius Namatianus, a Gaul by birth, who wrote in 416 a description of his voyage from the capital to his native land, which contains the most glowing eulogy of Rome ever penned by an ancient hand.
About midday he took to Barras a letter, penned by Roederer, requesting him to resign his post as Director.
But it is clear that by the time this chapter was penned it was believed that no man could attain to happiness in the hereafter if he had not been upright, just and charitable in his earthly existence.
Howie, out of character, had penned his intentions and with legal assistance referred by Merrill Cooms, she and Molly are financially set for life.
Wiseman displayed calmness and courage, and immediately penned an admirable Appeal to the English People (a pamphlet of over 30 pages), in which he explained the nature of the pope's action, and argued that the admitted principle of toleration included leave to establish a diocesan hierarchy; and in his concluding paragraphs he effectively contrasted that dominion over Westminster, which he was taunted with claiming, with his duties towards the poor Catholics resident there, with which alone he was really concerned.
This makes it all the more remarkable that Beethoven's second and only important Mass (in D, Op. 123) is not only the most dramatic ever penned but is, perhaps, the last classical Mass that is thoughtfully based upon the liturgy, and is not a mere musical setting of what happens to be a liturgic text.
Such a passage might well have been penned when the idea of Herod's Temple was already in the air.
The immediate effect however of what Knox thus approved was to bring his cause to its lowest ebb, and on the very day when Mary rode from Holyrood to her army, he sat down and penned the prayer, "Lord Jesus, put an end to this my miserable life, for justice and truth are not to be found among the sons of men!"
When he penned this despatch Grey was well aware of the distraught condition of the Free State and the agitation for a change in its government.
While he penned dissertations on the futility of fame and the burden of celebrity he was trimming his sails to catch the breeze of popular applause.
The earliest account still extant of these events is in The Civil Wars penned by Julius Caesar himself.
After touring the United States for more than nine months in the 1830s, Alexis de Tocqueville returned to his native France and penned the two-volume Democracy in America.
Tina Fey took her writing talents to the big screen when she penned the screenplay for the 2004 film Mean Girls, a comedy starring Lindsay Lohan.
He penned his 2003 autobiography, I Don't Mean to be Rude, But…, a short yet snappy read filled with amusing anecdotes and even a few tidbits of advice for aspiring singers.
He is reportedly planning to work with Ryan Tedder of the band One Republic and Jesse McCartney (who penned Leona Lewis' breakout hit Bleeding Love) on his post Idol debut album.
Given the schools she was attending since such a young age, it's no surprise that Lewis penned her first song at the age of 12.
He also directed, produced, and penned the screenplay for the highly controversial film The Passion of the Christ in 2004.
The whole album was penned by Pete Townshend, who based it on the teachings of Meher Baba.
Critics fell in love with Winehouse's voice and were also impressed that she had penned all of the songs herself, save for two covers.
With the help of his father, Nick penned a song called Joy to the World (A Christmas Prayer) for a Broadway AIDS benefit album.
Bryan Adams penned his swooning love song for the soundtrack to Robin Hood in the 90s, and it became a radio staple.
Matthew Gerrard and Robbie Nevil penned the song.
The song was actually penned by Willie Nelson, who was a struggling Nashville songwriter at the time.
Were they penned by the likes of Hank Williams, Sr.
Instead, it was penned by Willie Nelson, who at the time of the recording (1961) was a struggling Nashville songwriter.
She dipped her toes into acting in the early 80s, most notably in the classic 9 to 5 - the movie was a hit, and the song of the same name Parton penned for the film became one of her standards.
Singer/songwriter Dan Wilson penned the song while he was opening up his own bar, The Rehab Room, which has since closed.
L.L. Cool J penned this song with that advice in mind, and the opening rhyme – Don’t call it a comeback/I’ve been here for years – became one of rap’s best known lines.
Ramsay has also penned two autobiographical books, Humble Pie and Playing with Fire.
When the authors who penned those stories submitted their work, you have to wonder if somehow they imagined the day people would be reading their work on a screen in an electronic format.
At the expiration of the 20 days Ayaz gave the paper to the sultan, who on opening it found the celebrated satire which is now always prefixed to copies of the Shdhnama, and which is perhaps one of the bitterest and severest pieces of reproach ever penned.
Obtaining also a copy of the work as it had been printed before Hobbes had any doubt of the validity of his solutions, Wallis was able to track his whole course front the time of Ward's provocation - his passage from exultation to doubt, from doubt to confessed impotence, yet still without abandoning the old assumption of confident strength; and all his turnings and windings were now laid bare in one of the most trenchant pieces of controversial writing ever penned.
Donnie had scampered down at first light and dropped off his un-separated but translated letters of Annie's notebook, which Dean penned to completion over breakfast.
In related Wonder Woman news, a big screen adaptation is in the pipeline penned by Buffy The Vampire Slayer creator Joss Whedon.
Answer Bobby Hatfield 12 Who penned the autobiography Banana's Can't Fly?
Anyhow, of the Micheal Nesmith penned tunes, we've a couple or three of absolute genuine corkers.
I realize that the thoughts I have penned above contain no great profundity.
A contemporary, Michael Flanders, then a budding schoolboy actor, penned a school revue GO TO IT!
Scribe Ehren Kruger, who is teaming with Bobker and helmer Iain Softley on Skeleton Key for Universal Pictures, penned the Grimm screenplay.
Little has changed since he penned those lines and the Wye river still wends its way by Tintern, its abbey and forest.
Mr Birrell has called it "the most amazing record of human exertion ever penned by man."
Many recusants were penned up, starved and cruelly treated, even tortured when they attempted escape, in the vaults of Dunottar Castle.
So was founded the Latin kingdom of Jerusalem, whose history is one of the most painful ever penned (see Crusades).