How to Use writer in a Sentence

writer

noun
  • The writer of the best essay will win a prize.
  • He's a writer of horror stories.
  • The magazine is looking for freelance writers.
  • They identified the writer of the mysterious letter.
  • She is my favorite French writer.
  • All writers meet live from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. and on Zoom.
    Linda McIntosh, San Diego Union-Tribune, 9 Dec. 2023
  • Maybe even things the writer is later ashamed to have thought or done!
    Nell Freudenberger, The New Yorker, 28 July 2024
  • There was our desire to pursue the arts—I’m a writer, Joyce was a singer.
    Hazlitt, 3 May 2023
  • But there’s a kind of unspoken grandeur to the slate of movies in store, even if the stars and writers can’t promote it.
    Tracy Brown, Los Angeles Times, 30 Aug. 2023
  • Of course, as a rule, young writers tend to be in their heads and not yet fully awake to the people around them.
    Katy Waldman, The New Yorker, 4 Sep. 2024
  • The casting is in process and a team of writers will soon be joining Ævar Grímsson.
    Elsa Keslassy, Variety, 30 Mar. 2023
  • The renowned writer’s searing account of the 2022 attempt on his life.
    The California Independent Booksellers Alliance, Los Angeles Times, 24 Apr. 2024
  • All names in the story have been changed, including the writer’s.
    Good Housekeeping, 1 Nov. 2022
  • David Marchese is a staff writer for the magazine and the columnist for Talk.
    David Marchese David Marchese Photograph By Mamadi Doumbouya, New York Times, 8 Oct. 2023
  • There will be a Michigan writer on the pod later this week, but this was a look at the Wolverines through the lens of the Buckeyes.
    cleveland, 22 Nov. 2022
  • In this one, the writer is a children’s-book author played by Sarah Ramos of Parenthood.
    Carrie Wittmer, Vulture, 25 Dec. 2022
  • That’s why wine writer Anna Lee Iijima goes out of her way to shop here.
    Oset Babür-Winter, Curbed, 8 Nov. 2024
  • The woke viewpoint of your letter writer will be out of date sooner than 61 years from now.
    WSJ, 29 Nov. 2022
  • The film marks the producing debut of Sanon and writer Kanika Dhillon.
    Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 8 May 2024
  • Two writers seemed to parrot sound bites from Fox News or the internet.
    Sun Sentinel Editorial Board, Sun Sentinel, 30 Nov. 2024
  • There will be no strike after all for the writers at iHeart Podcast Network.
    Katie Campione, Deadline, 24 June 2024
  • Fans of the late writer Joan Didion will soon get a chance to purchase some of her most prized possessions.
    Bryan Hood, Robb Report, 31 Oct. 2022
  • Which is why Yglesias is making $1 million a year and this writer is not.
    Dan Zak, Washington Post, 11 Jan. 2023
  • This is a common, even modest, success story for a writer on the site.
    Erin Somers, The Atlantic, 18 Nov. 2022
  • Our writers endeavor to inform readers of the truth in stylish and compelling prose.
    Madeleine Kearns, National Review, 7 Mar. 2024
  • Members of the writers chapter vote to determine the longlist and the nominations.
    Georg Szalai, The Hollywood Reporter, 5 Jan. 2024
  • Anyway, my fellow writer said Kwan would end up back in the minors within a few months.
    Terry Pluto, cleveland, 28 Jan. 2023
  • To get a sense of a writer’s artistic and moral ethos, look no further than her sources of inspiration.
    Juliana Ukiomogbe, ELLE, 2 May 2023
  • It was meant to take place in September 2023, but was pushed back by last summer's actors' and writers' strikes.
    Kelly Lawler, USA TODAY, 16 Sep. 2024
  • Sophie Cannon is an arts and culture writer with a sprinkle of pop culture, travel and design in the mix.
    Sophie Liza Cannon, Forbes, 30 Nov. 2024

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