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Examples of writer in a Sentence
She is my favorite French writer.
He's a writer of horror stories.
a course on 19th-century writers
The magazine is looking for freelance writers.
The writer of the best essay will win a prize.
They identified the writer of the mysterious letter.
Recent Examples of writer from the Web
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Headquarters: San Francisco Funding: $18.5 million, according to Crunchbase Wendy Lee is a San Francisco Chronicle staff writer.
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Emilie Eaton is a San Antonio Express-News staff writer.
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Courson has been a freelance writer for the paper for 10 years.
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Staff writer Anthony Man contributed to this report.
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Some 140,000 Jews—including numerous musicians, writers and artists—were held in Theresienstadt.
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Associated Press writer Bob Thomas in Los Angeles contributed to this report.
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Cathy works as an actress and husband Jamie is a writer.
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And being in the presence of one, every follicle of hair on your body will stand on end. * * * Jonny Auping is a freelance writer based in Dallas, Texas.
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First Known Use of writer
before 12th century
writer Synonyms
Synonyms
author, litterateur (or littérateur), pen, penman, scribe, scrivener;
Antonyms
Related Words
auteur, belletrist (also belle-lettrist), stylist, wordsmith;
coauthor, coscenarist, cowriter;
ghostwriter, hack, hatchet man, scribbler, wordmonger;
autobiographer, memoirist, memorialist;
fabulist, fictioneer, fictionist, novelist, romancer, storyteller;
essayist, pamphleteer, satirist;
dramatist, playwright, scenarist, screenwriter, scriptwriter;
bard, poet, rhymer, versifier;
blogger, columnist, journalist, newspaperman, reporter, sportswriter;
Phrases
man of letters, woman of letters;
WRITER Defined for English Language Learners
Definition of writer for English Language Learners
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: someone whose work is to write books, poems, stories, etc.
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: someone who has written something
WRITER Defined for Kids
Definition of writer for Students
: a person who writes especially as a business or occupation
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