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Example sentences for "penned"

Lexicographically close words:
penmen; pennance; pennant; pennants; penne; pennes; pennies; penniless; penning; pennis
  1. Breakfast was ready, but, before giving her attention to it, she penned a note.

  2. As soon as it was light enough to enable me to see to write, I penned a message to be immediately sent to Doctor Dodson.

  3. As soon as I could command my nerves I hastily penned the following note: "'DR.

  4. The ordeal must have been more damping to the fire of young genius than the most slashing article ever penned by the most caustic reviewer.

  5. First, say at four o'clock in the morning, you drive the cows into the stock-yard, where the calves have been penned up all the previous night in a hutch in one corner.

  6. These words he penned soon after Henry VIII of England had sacrificed the lives of John Fisher, bishop of Rochester, and his Chancellor, Sir Thomas More, to his sensual passions and his thirst for blood.

  7. Characteristically enough, instead of attempting to define the exact nature and value of moral effort, Luther penned what, in reality, was merely an appendix to his new doctrine on faith.

  8. Now, we ask, is the man or men who penned and circulated this atrocious calumny likely to command the respect of any class of Catholics, learned or ignorant?

  9. While they were in the town, we could have cut them off from the Chard road, which would have penned them in while we worked round to seize the bridges.

  10. I saw our army penned up in a little narrow valley where the roads were quagmires, so that our guns were stuck in the mud, our horses up to their knees, our men floundering.

  11. Might not those very words have been penned at any moment during the Paris Conference with equal relevance to its undertakings?

  12. Those words, written a hundred and five years ago, might have been penned any day since the month of February, 1919.

  13. It was her hand that had penned that letter.

  14. He longed for the woman whose hand had penned those words as he had never longed for anything in his life.

  15. I said, bitterly, being certain as that I lived that the paper from which the Duke Otho read had been penned at this very house of the Weiss Thor in which I now sat.

  16. You may know all that was ever penned in papyrus or graved on stone, written on tablets of clay or preserved in print and still be ignorant--not even know how to manage a husband.

  17. There was never an atheistical book written; there was never an infidel argument penned that touched the CORE of any religion, Christian or Pagan.

  18. When my brother quitted Versailles he was much hurt at being deprived of a considerable income for having penned a memorial which his zeal alone had dictated, and the importance of which was afterwards but too well understood.

  19. In the concluding sentences of this record, as it now lies before me, the handwriting is not very legible: they were penned under circumstances singularly unfavorable.

  20. It contained only one new entry, in a straggling handwriting, as if it had been penned in the dark: "july2th foundered svivors rescude by wale wether stuffy no nues from capting trowtbeck Sammle martin cheef Ofcer.

  21. Learning of this, Holmes penned in haste the stanzas that stirred the nation's feelings and saved the old boat from destruction.

  22. He advised the captain-general to insist upon the right of examining every convoy passing through the gates of his city, and he penned a long letter for him, in vindication of the right.

  23. We returned the fire with the greatest briskness that can be imagined; and so the firing continued for some time; but, unluckily, we were penned up in a demolished fort; there was no room to extend.

  24. So far we've been treated like lords, but I don't like the idea of being penned up in this cabin," said Harry.

  25. I like to be out on deck in bad weather and not penned up in a cubby hole.

  26. But exactly a fortnight after his arrival, the Duke of Argyll, as Secretary of State for India, penned a Despatch which gave a fresh impulse to questions of Indian military reform.

  27. Surely the Holy Ghost has penned this narrative, like all Holy Scripture, for our learning.

  28. He commissioned me to say, that should this be pleaded as an excuse for your behaviour, he will consent to accept a written apology, to be penned by you, from my dictation.


  29. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "penned" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    barred; beleaguered; beset; bound; cloistered; confined; cramped; cursive; enclosed; engrossed; flowing; graphic; immured; imprisoned; incarcerated; inscribed; italicized; jailed; longhand; manuscript; penciled; penned; printed; quarantined; restrained; running; scriptural; shorthand; walled; written