penned
撰写的,撰写的文章,撰写的作品,成文的
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Definitions
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- : any of various instruments for writing or drawing with ink or a similar substance.
- : a detachable metal penpoint, filled by dipping or with a quill; nib.
- : such a penpoint with its penholder.
- : fountain pen.
- : ballpoint pen.
- : the pen as the instrument of writing or authorship: The pen is mightier than the sword.
- : a person's style or quality of writing: He writes with a witty, incisive pen.
- : a writer: I leave this story to abler pens.
- : the profession of writing: a master of the pen.
- : a pen-shaped device having a cartridge filled with a drug or medication: an insulin pen with disposable needles.
- : Computers. stylus.
- : Ornithology. a quill. a pinfeather.
- : something resembling or suggesting a feather or quill.
- : Zoology. an internal, corneous or chitinous, feather-shaped structure in certain cephalopods, as the squid.
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penned, pen·ning.
- : to write with or as with a pen; put down in writing: to pen an essay.
- : to draw with or as with a pen: to pen a sketch.
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Examples
Michael Lewis, who coined the term and penned the 2003 bestselling book of that name.
A few years back, Belle and Sebastian even penned a song, “Suicide Girl,” about a woman trying to audition to be one.
Few authors write more transparently about music than Swafford, who has also penned memorable lives of Brahms and Ives.
Judie Brown, president of American Life League, penned an op-ed blasting the “obvious erection.”
The museum also published several books on birds penned by du Pont.
The few who escaped our swords are penned up in the Residency, and its walls are now crumbling before our guns.
Such of us as remain are like the buffalo penned in national parks—a sorry remnant of the days that were.
Having penned these lines, Queeker heaved a deep sigh—cast one long lingering gaze on the moon, and went to bed.
But how explain the violent part played by the young man, who is not mentioned in these abrupt and hastily penned sentences!
Have I penned these memorials, let me ask myself, from any paltry vanity, or desire to talk about that self?