How to use "writing" in a sentence
Sentences
I am writing this now some months later: I am safe now
Valjean gave Cosette lessons in reading and writing, and spent hours watching her as she dressed and undressed her doll
But now he understood that Jondrette's business was writing dishonest letters, asking for money from people he imagined were wealthier than himself.
Her eyes lit up when she noticed the books on his writing desk.
A man with a long, grey beard was sitting at the table, writing a letter and smoking a pipe
On the front page there was some writing - hard, clear writing in black ink:
I thought of the writing on that page
But the writing still looked fresh and alive.
A beautiful old writing-desk stood near the window
The writing inside the book and the writing on the labels was the same
I had seen that tall sloping writing before
It was Rebecca's writing
Every page was covered with the same writing.
How weak and childish it was! It was like the writing of a schoolgirl.
They are in an envelope in a drawer of the writing desk.'
I recognized Rebecca's hard, black writing.
Do you really think Rebecca killed herself after writing that note?'
Danny, of course, had been writing about something else, and the dark interpretation that could be drawn from those two words now, after his death, was just a macabre coincidence.
"So you think you're - what, sleepwalking? In your sleep, you're writing a rejection of Danny's death on his chalkboard?"
She said, "People who believe in the occult have a thing they call 'automatic writing.' Ever hear of it?"
Spirit writing
Then maybe I'll be relaxed enough to make this automatic writing work."
Billy said, "Automatic writing is bunk, Christina
He looked at Elliot and said, "I don't think this spirit writing stuff is-"
All I know is that during the fourteen or sixteen - or seven thousand - months that we worked together, through countless story meetings in the development executive's office, I was never sure that any of my writing confreres had read the complete novel that he or she was adapting - or understood what had been read
The Eyes of Darkness was assigned to a writing team, two quite personable women who seemed bright and enthusiastic
The legendary producer who brought the project to the studio is dead, probably because he was a beloved friend of the bad-luck writing duo.
I am still alive, thank God, and still writing books
It's his writing
'Ah, yes I heard that Madame Delambre had been writing a lot, but we could find nothing but the short note informing us that she was taking her own life.'
I had been in a good mood for writing, but now I felt uncomfortable
'Dear Clement, it began 'Sorry, I cannot wait any longer, but I must...' Here the writing ended.
And the colonel was shot while he was writing a letter
And as he was writing, someone came in through the garden doors, came up behind the colonel and shot him
'Because he was writing at the desk,' I said.
The second possibility is, of course, that he was sitting at the desk writing a note, but it must have been a different note from the one that was found
You know that letter that Protheroe was writing when he was killed?'
And, of course, we sent him examples of Protheroe's writing
The writing was the same as that on the other anonymous letter that I received earlier
Here the writing ended
The poor colonel was sitting at the desk writing his letter to you
I was at home at the time and writing in my study with the curtains open
I followed them to my study and found, lying on my writing- table, the page of work I had left on the afternoon of the opening of the cylinder
I sit in my study writing by lamplight, and suddenly I see the valley below on fire again, and feel that the house around me is empty and lonely
And it is strange, too, to stand on Primrose Hill, as I did only a day before writing this last chapter
Mary was writing about women and the vote a hundred years before women started fighting for it
Malala used the name "Gul Makai" and began writing for the BBC (the United Kingdom's television and radio) about life with the Taliban
She spent her life writing and thinking.