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Example sentences for "written about"

  • The Abbé Brasseur has translated one from the Codex Chimalpopoca, a work in the Nahuatl language of Ancient Mexico, written about half a century after the conquest.

  • The most remarkable is the Apotheosis of Pope Joan, a tragi-comic legend, written about 1480.

  • In this little volume, written about 1343, I have counted five instances of single Greek words.

  • The work of Celsus against Christianity, or The True Word, written about 178, is lost, but it has been so incorporated in the elaborate reply of Origen that it can be reconstructed without much difficulty.

  • The first appearance of the appeal to apostolic tradition as preserved in apostolic sees is the following passage from Irenæus, written about 175.

  • For the Son of Man goes, even as it is written about him, but woe to that man by whom the Son of Man is betrayed!

  • It is written about me in the book in the scroll.

  • But I tell you that Elijah has come, and they have also done to him whatever they wanted to, even as it is written about him.

  • Written about 1720,--and possibly the same work as the above.

  • This important official document, written about 1560, has been published but once in Spanish,--in Vol.

  • Historia ecclesiastica Indiana," written about 1590, but printed for the first time, by Sr.

  • Historia de los Indios de Nueva-Espana," written about 1540, but published in full only by Sr.

  • His "Messiah," written about 1711, is a religious anthem in which the prophecies of Holy Writ kindle all the splendor of his verse.

  • The first edition, written about 1373, at the request of Count Robert of Namur, is inspired by an English bias.

  • His early poems reflect the modes and metres of the current French tradition in an English dress, and only reach sustained importance in his lament on the death of the Duchess Blanche of Lancaster, written about 1370.

  • In this, the first great work is the Ormulum, or metrical Scripture paraphrase of Orm or Ormin, written about 1200, somewhere near the northern frontier of the midland area.

  • But I most sincerely ask Mrs. Chamberlain's pardon for I cannot conceal from myself that she will not like to be written about in terms of eulogy.

  • Perhaps the best volume to begin with is Conversations and Journals in Egypt--a book which Lord Cromer used to declare was the best thing ever written about Egypt.

  • The greatest and best book ever written about birds.

  • His propaganda of this kind squares ill with his paper on The Origin of Revealed Religion, written about 1860.

  • The Promenade du Sceptique (written about 1747, published posthumously) goes further, and presents tentatively the reply to the design argument which was adopted by Hume.

  • Constantius, Life of St. Germanus, written about A.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "written about" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.


    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    aged fifty; attend school; beloved reader; coming forward; expected every; father had; gaseous state; gone over; government securities; has left; large folio; length succeeded; natural system; three ships; varicose veins; vital energy; which shall; written constitution; written from; written instrument; written language; written order; written promise; written statement; written upon; written work