Collocations for "write"
Common phrases and expressions where native English speakers use the word "write" in context.
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write
ⓘMost examples are given in US English. We have labeled exceptions as UK.v
- write a [book, novel, poem]
- write an [essay, article]
- write for [children, adults, teens]
- write [fiction, nonfiction]
- write for [a living, pleasure]
- wrote [1000 words, four pages]
- write in [English]
- write about your [day, experiences]
- write about the [war, discovery]
- write down your [ideas, thoughts, reactions]
- write a review on [the store, your experience]
- write up a [review, response, report, ticket, complaint]
- write to [request, apply]
- I am writing to [complain, inquire]
- I am writing to [congratulate, thank, inform] you
- write (to) me from [college, China]
- write to you every [day, week]
- write to your [parents, friends]
- learn to read and write
- write and [sign, read]
- write [in cursive, joined up]
- write [neatly, messily, clearly, illegibly, longhand]
- write on [the paper, a sticky note, your hand]
- write down your [name, title, ideas]
- write it down [on, in]
- write off a [debt, loan, car]
- the [debt] was written off
'write' also found in these entries (note: many are not synonyms or translations):
Christmas
- ID
- W
- abroad
- abstract
- academic
- acceptable
- acceptance
- aching
- age
- agreed
- anyhow
- author
- beforehand
- better
- bibliography
- birth
- blank
- block
- board
- box
- call
- carbon
- card
- cartoon
- chant
- charity
- checklist
- clearly
- colleague
- command
- compel
- complaint
- concrete
- confusing
- contract
- convenience
- copy
- corner
- covenant
- cover
- date
- definition
- delete
- demonstrate
- detail
- dissertation
- dossier
- draft
- dual