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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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Guillermo Contreras is a San Antonio Express-News staff writer.
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Detroit Free Press writers Shawn Windsor, Dave Birkett and Carlos Monarrez break down day 3 of Detroit Lions minicamp on Thursday, June 7, 2018.
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History buffs and Francophiles get to nerd out in Paris à Table by Parisian writer/theater critic Eugène Briffault.
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Food writer Helen Rosner spoke to the effect Argento had on Bourdain’s perspective in an essay for the same publication.
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Producers, directors, and writers should understand that viewers today are enlisting a decision-making heuristic similar to the one Seinfeld’s Elaine Benes used to determine which suitors deserved her limited supply of contraceptive sponges.
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Here's more from Reds beat writer Bobby Nightengale: After nine losses to the St. Louis Cardinals in nine games this season, the curse was finally lifted.
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With trans activist and author Janet Mock working on the show as a writer-producer and Our Lady J (whose past credits include Transparent) also working behind the scenes, the show authentically portrays the story of its characters.
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Joe Garofoli is The San Francisco Chronicle’s senior political writer.
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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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