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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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Her mother, the former Louise Perkins, was known as Peggy, and was a daughter of Maxwell Perkins, the iconic literary editor of writers such as Hemingway, F. Scott Fitzgerald, and Thomas Wolfe.
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Emily — or someone from her carefully curated team of writers and stylists — churns out a post every day.
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Many of its writers have contributed to these pages over the years, including columnist Jason Riley.
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Lindsey Beer, the writer of Sierra Burgess Is a Loser, thinks something deeper is at play.
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Following criticism about the lack of writers of color at last year’s event, the festival plans to increase the number of speakers from various ethnic backgrounds.
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Finalists will be chosen by a group of both local and national writers and songwriters, and the winner will be determined among those finalists by online voting.
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These contemporary memoirists find progenitors in the fiction of earlier writers: Charlotte Brontë, Anaïs Nin, Clarice Lispector, Charlotte Perkins Gilman.
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In the aftermath of Kennedy’s retirement, a number of leftist/liberal writers echoed Faris’s arguments.
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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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