Word Finder - writing

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Graphism of symbols such as letters that express some meaning.

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Something written, such as a document, article or book.

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The process of representing a language with symbols or letters.

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A work of an author.

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The style of writing of a person.

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I can't read your writing.

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(as a modifier) Intended for or used in writing.

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a writing table

Are you writing a book?

He was writing something on the tablet.

Another guy was writing for a magazine.

And there were papers in her purse in her writing that matched, too.

Fred nodded and began writing on his pad.

Selyn hurried across the room to a pad of paper and pen that Wynn had clearly left behind, if his tight writing on the back cover was any indication.

She moved to the counter without writing anything down.

When she's writing the notebook she's been in the life some time.

I sure wasn't checking the time and writing it down!

Teacher is writing letters to her friends.

We talked about writing a will, but it was one of those things you never get around to doing—we're all going to live forever.

Yet he paused over the writing as though it were difficult.

It was tempting to let her writing session go, since she would see him at noon, but she had agreed to write instead of speaking.

What are you writing, Mary?

Any teacher of composition knows that he can bring his pupils to the point of writing without errors in syntax or in the choice of words.

The memory must be stored with ideas and the mind must be enriched with knowledge before writing becomes a natural and pleasurable effort.

After reading the letter Natasha sat down at the writing table to answer it.

It's so exciting writing them, I haven't had time to send them to my publisher.

It's part of their permanent collection and I wasn't supposed to even take it out, but I'm sure if you explain about the book your brother is writing, they'll let you make a copy of it.

The large table covered with books and plans, the tall glass-fronted bookcases with keys in the locks, the high desk for writing while standing up, on which lay an open exercise book, and the lathe with tools laid ready to hand and shavings scattered around--all indicated continuous, varied, and orderly activity.

Instead of pointing to the four directions, its edges were lined with ancient symbols he took to be writing from the time-before-time.

Afterward, she was writing some information down in her dairy journal when Alex wandered by.

I replied, "Writing about polio," and he asked, "What is polio?"

On a third estate the priest, bearing a cross, came to meet him surrounded by children whom, by the count's generosity, he was instructing in reading, writing, and religion.

He kept writing all one summer—ten or twelve letters.

While Cynthia was writing down the dates, Jennifer bit her tongue and looked at Dean.

She couldn't read the writing, but she knew the numbers well enough to find the grids.

Miss Franny would never resort to writing something like this.

Only in the last year had his sister started writing, and it was always stiff and formal.

One night the king sat up very late, writing letters and sending messages; and the little page was kept busy running on errands until past midnight.

Helen has had the best and purest models in language constantly presented to her, and her conversation and her writing are unconscious reproductions of what she has read.

Then came the work in college--original theme writing with new ideals of composition or at least new methods of suggesting those ideals.

To him Homer was a great writer, though what his writing was about he did not know.

She sat down at her writing table, on which stood miniature portraits and which was littered with books and papers.

I'm writing this book and you're an important part of what I have to say.

It seems worth while, however, to quote from some of her chance bits of writing, which are neither so informal as her letters nor so carefully composed as her story of her life.

He sat down at the dusty writing table, and, having laid the manuscripts before him, opened them out, closed them, finally pushed them away, and resting his head on his hand sank into meditation.

The local folks call this spot the writing on the rock.

My name is Elizabeth Anne Morganthaw Gustefson, called Betsy and I'm writing these horrifying remembrances at the request of my husband Ben.

With all the writing I'm doing, I need more paper!

Dean could not tell from the writing if it compared to the sig­nature Jeffrey Byrne left on the many expense forms Dean had reviewed—it was only a scrawl.

She was at work upon it about two weeks, writing a little each day, at her own pleasure.

She didn't understand the significance of the pictures or writing and frowned, wondering how such a simple place was considered sacred.

The one who was writing and whom Boris addressed turned round crossly and told him Bolkonski was on duty and that he should go through the door on the left into the reception room if he wished to see him.

Nowadays they are always writing! and he laughed unnaturally.

Betsy screamed, It's like if The Lord Jesus was standing here, writing a mother's day card to the Virgin Mary, you'd be sitting around on your asses discussing if it was really the month of May!

Dean bit his lip, assuming the little woman was about to complain about Gladys Turnbull's late night writing, but she had other concerns.

O'Neill observed that scrutiny of government had become so intense that officials never could have gotten away with that—and he was writing in the late 1980s.

In O'Neill's day, getting a copy of the federal budget meant writing away and buying a hefty paper copy.

In one case, the technology, writing, probably resulted in our memories getting worse, but we gained much more than we lost.