Sample Sentences for
wrought
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wrought as in:  wrought iron

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The windows have decorative wrought iron bars for security.
wrought = worked or crafted
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    She wore a hand-wrought silver bracelet.
    wrought = worked
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    Mother's so wrought up her cheeks are blotched with red,  (source)
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    Harry looked behind him and saw a wrought-iron archway where the barrier had been, with the words Platform Nine and Three-Quarters on it.  (source)
    wrought = worked (shaped by bending or beating)
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    His age is betrayed only by the creases across his brow and a proud, deeply pitted nose, over which a purple filigree of veins unfolds like a finely wrought tattoo.  (source)
    wrought = worked (crafted)
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    Beneath him, under all his limbs and his huge coiled tail, and about him on all sides stretching away across the unseen floors, lay countless piles of precious things, gold wrought and unwrought, gems and jewels, and silver red-stained in the ruddy light.  (source)
    unwrought = not crafted
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    The fence was gracefully landscaped and painted flat black to resemble wrought iron, but no cosmetic effort could disguise the thickness of the metal, or its twelve-foot height.  (source)
    wrought = worked (decoratively crafted)
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    Yet a fourteenth share of all the silver and gold, wrought and unwrought, was given up to Bard; for Dain said: "We will honour the agreement of the dead, and he has now the Arkenstone in his keeping."  (source)
    unwrought = not crafted
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    The ground was covered with the most beautiful carpets he had ever walked upon, and from the top of the structure hung lamps of hand-wrought gold, each with a lighted candle.  (source)
    wrought = worked (decoratively crafted)
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    He passed through an archway of wrought-iron curlicues, and paused, squinting at the weedy rows of gravestones.  (source)
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    A pale green curtain of branches just brushed the grasses and threw a filigree of shadows, as delicate as the wrought silver, on the child's face.  (source)
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    Dazed and hugging herself, Esperanza surveyed the surviving victims: the twisted forms of wrought-iron chairs, unharmed cast-iron skillets, and the mortars and pestles from the kitchen that were made from lava rock and refused to burn.  (source)
    wrought = worked (crafted)
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    The poplar trees lined the redbrick driveway, which led to a pair of wrought-iron gates.  (source)
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    Across from it was a handsome bank with arched windows and a wrought-iron door.  (source)
    wrought = worked (decoratively crafted)
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wrought as in:  the damage she has wrought

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The town still hasn't recovered from the damage wrought by the hurricane.
wrought = caused (made to happen)
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    The revolt wrought havoc through the region.
    wrought = caused
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    The cootie's host showed not the faintest interest in the furor he had wrought.  (source)
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    I'd never seen anyone yell at my father like that, and I was astonished by, then afraid of, the change it wrought in his features.  (source)
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    "When I think that it is only eighteen months since the Seed was first sown among you," he said, "I marvel at what the Lord hath wrought."  (source)
    wrought = done (made happen)
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    and where wroughtest thou?†  (source)
    standard suffix: Today, the suffix "-est" is dropped, so that where they said "Thou wroughtest" in older English, today we say "You wrought."
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    I left them also nails, staples, hinges, hammers, chisels, knives, scissors, and all sorts of tools and iron work; & for the use of the smith, gave them three tons of unwrought iron, for a supply; and as to arms and ammunition, I stored them even to profusion; or at least to equip a sufficient little army against all opposers whatsoever.†  (source)
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    That poor soul who has wrought all this misery is the saddest case of all.  (source)
    wrought = caused
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    what is thy guilt, That never wroughtest sin as yet, pardie?†  (source)
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    Hatter did recognize some of the buildings, as dilapidated as they were, but he couldn't afford to feel sorrow for the changes wrought in the capital city since Redd's coup.  (source)
    wrought = made
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    * *breach, ruin O worthy PETRO, King of CYPRE <30> also, That Alexandre won by high mast'ry, Full many a heathnen wroughtest thou full woe, Of which thine owen lieges had envy; And, for no thing but for thy chivalry, They in thy bed have slain thee by the morrow; Thus can Fortune her wheel govern and gie,* *guide And out of joy bringe men into sorrow.†  (source)
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    His father wrought us evil, he destroyed us—and is gone down into the eternal fires!  (source)
    wrought = brought (caused)
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    And it was in this hour, so full of doubt and awe, that the one miracle was wrought,  (source)
    wrought = caused
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    ...for the crime he had wrought.  (source)
    wrought = done (caused to happen)
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wrought as in:  her mind was wrought with anxiety

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Her mind was wrought with anxiety.
wrought = excessively nervous or agitated
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    The news of the impending decision left him wrought with nervous energy.
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    And in her state, so wrought-up and weak—†  (source)
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    Again he paced the long sitting-room, growing more and more wrought-up as evidently he grew familiar with the singular state of affairs.†  (source)
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    I used to clasp his face between my palms, his expression wrought with worry, with unassuaged anxiety.  (source)
    wrought = filled or shaped (with an emotion)
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    My dull brain was wrought With things forgotten.  (source)
    wrought = overwhelmed
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