the writer

Example Sentences

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“I’d like to be remembered as someone who really tried to make things better,” the writer told his Observer editor earlier this year, according to the AP.

From Los Angeles Times • May 12, 2026

In 1973 Mr. Schaller and the writer Peter Matthiessen hiked to the Crystal Mountain in the Nepalese Himalaya.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 8, 2026

Osman, the writer of the best-selling Thursday Murder Club novels and former host of House of Games and Pointless, was made an OBE for services to literature and broadcasting.

From BBC • May 5, 2026

But funding a nongambler’s entrance into the gambling world as a kind of comedic protagonist not only puts the writer at risk but also flattens the seriousness of the story’s subject.

From Slate • May 5, 2026

The challenge to the writer is to use those resources so that the reader can graft the information in a series of sentences into his web of knowledge without getting tangled up in either.

From "The Sense of Style" by Steven Pinker