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WRITE ABOUT
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I. (verb)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Write about a particular topic
Example:
Snow wrote about China
Synonyms:
write about; write of; write on
Classified under:
Verbs of sewing, baking, painting, performing
Hypernyms (to "write about" is one way to...):
compose; indite; pen; write (produce a literary work)
Domain category:
authorship; composition; penning; writing (the act of creating written works)
Sentence frames:
Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s somebody
Context examples:
The gentleness of the Doctor's manner and surprise, the dignity that mingled with the supplicating attitude of his wife, the amiable concern of Mr. Dick, and the earnestness with which my aunt said to herself, That man mad! (triumphantly expressive of the misery from which she had saved him)—I see and hear, rather than remember, as I write about it.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
You wanted to write about life when you knew nothing of the essential characteristics of life.
(Martin Eden, by Jack London)
"Too much is written by the men who can't write about the men who do write," Martin concurred.
(Martin Eden, by Jack London)
He puzzled that men found so much to write about, and, puzzling, dozed in his chair.
(Martin Eden, by Jack London)
While his imagination was fanciful, even fantastic at times, he had a basic love of reality that compelled him to write about the things he knew.
(Martin Eden, by Jack London)
When I first tried to write, I had nothing to write about except a few paltry experiences which I neither understood nor appreciated.
(Martin Eden, by Jack London)
He felt the stress and strain of life, its fevers and sweats and wild insurgences—surely this was the stuff to write about!
(Martin Eden, by Jack London)
You wanted to write about the world and the scheme of existence when the world was a Chinese puzzle to you and all that you could have written would have been about what you did not know of the scheme of existence.
(Martin Eden, by Jack London)
