How to Use writ in a Sentence

writ

noun

• He was served with a writ.
• The judge issued a writ of habeas corpus.
• The landlord will have to go back to court and get a new writ.
  — AZCentral.com, 15 June 2021
• Stitt was at the ready to file writs by the end of the day should the clients not appear.
  — Kristina Davis, sandiegouniontribune.com, 24 June 2018
• Flack heralded these works as a way forward for art writ large.
  — Alex Greenberger, ARTnews.com, 1 July 2024
• The surge in share buybacks is often held up as short-termism writ large.
  — James MacKintosh, WSJ, 10 May 2018
• Which is not to say that bike-share systems, and cycling writ large, don’t big face challenges.
  — Aarian Marshall, WIRED, 3 May 2018
• Business leaders who want to succeed need to be clear on impact writ large.
  — Rolling Stone Culture Council, Rolling Stone, 16 Oct. 2024
• Crime writ large in the downtown neighborhood is down 6% year-to-date.
  — Kayla Dwyer, IndyStar, 16 July 2025
• What does all this mean really for the housing market writ large?
  — Taylor Wilson, USA TODAY, 16 Sep. 2024
• And no less should be demanded of the engineer writ large.
  — IEEE Spectrum, 8 Aug. 2019
• That emotional mystery is metonymic for the project of the album writ large.
  — Juan Velasquez, Them, 23 Sep. 2024
• After the five days, landlords can file for the writ of possession.
  — San Antonio Express-News, 7 Jan. 2015
• That savagery left its mark in him, eroding his faith in poetry and speech writ large.
  — Huda Fakhreddine august 28, Literary Hub, 28 Aug. 2025
• The state’s writ does not hold; public services barely exist.
  — The Economist, 20 June 2020
• Hunter also stated in the writ that trying his client again would be double jeopardy.
  — Elizabeth Zavala, San Antonio Express-News, 21 June 2022
• This charming witticism might double as a tagline for the season writ large.
  — Rafaela Bassili, Vulture, 20 Apr. 2026
• But the court doesn’t track what happens after the judgment, unless a writ is issued.
  — AZCentral.com, 19 Apr. 2022
• Again, this is the politics of repression writ large and in color.
  — Dave Zirin, Rolling Stone, 17 June 2025
• But the writ was the improper method to challenge the compact, justices ruled.
  — Lawrence Mower, Miami Herald, 22 Mar. 2024
• The future of the profession writ large was not Khan’s concern.
  — Maggie Doherty, Harper's Magazine, 28 Feb. 2025
• But the bill would have enjoyed the support of big business, nativists, and the public writ large.
  — Eric Levitz, Daily Intelligencer, 19 July 2017
• His body was writ over with his daring and folly, a testament to the fragility and strength of flesh and bone.
  — Alice Driver, Longreads, 20 Mar. 2018
• Human evolution is a story writ slow.
  — Jeffrey Kluger, Time, 22 Oct. 2025
• The suit is known as a petition for a writ of mandate and declaratory relief.
  — Paul Pringlestaff Writer, Los Angeles Times, 12 Apr. 2022
• But the long-term outcome in Palestine writ large is going to be from a statesmanlike view.
  — CBS News, 29 Sep. 2024
• And this show was writ in big pictures, offering lots of scenic dazzle on the outdoors Davies stage.
  — James Hebert, sandiegouniontribune.com, 24 Dec. 2017
• The speaker list reflects the growing coterie of the crypto world and tech writ large that has taken a hard-right turn.
  — Rob Wile, NBC News, 26 July 2024
• The writ for certiorari also asks the justices to overturn the ruling.
  — Jenna Sundel, MSNBC Newsweek, 7 Nov. 2025
• And in the end, what is the world but an island writ large, marooned in a vast blankness, burning through its stores of food and fuel?
  — Ligaya Mishan, New York Times, 8 Nov. 2019