Sample sentences for WROUGHT - verbalworkout.com

2 meanings

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1 —as in:
wrought iron

Definition

worked — as when iron is shaped to fit by bending or beating

wrought = worked or crafted

Other Uses (with this meaning)

wrought = worked

It was long, and wound about him like a tail; and it was made (for Scrooge observed it closely) of cash-boxes, keys, padlocks, ledgers, deeds, and heavy purses wrought in steel.
Charles Dickens -- A Christmas Carol

wrought = worked (crafted)

He passed through an archway of wrought-iron curlicues, and paused, squinting at the weedy rows of gravestones.
Natalie Babbitt -- Tuck Everlasting

wrought = worked (decoratively crafted)

No, it is not thus; your form so divinely wrought, and beaming with beauty, has decayed, but your spirit still visits and consoles your unhappy friend.
Mary Shelley -- Frankenstein

wrought = worked (crafted)

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.
Elizabeth George Speare -- The Witch of Blackbird Pond

wrought = worked (decoratively crafted)

Across from it was a handsome bank with arched windows and a wrought-iron door.
Jeannette Walls -- The Glass Castle

wrought = worked (decoratively crafted)

He bears no letter of infamy wrought into his garment, as thou dost, but I shall read it on his heart.
Nathaniel Hawthorne -- The Scarlet Letter

wrought = worked (crafted)

He sat serene on his couch, drinking from his wrought-gold cup.
Madeline Miller -- Circe

wrought = worked (decoratively crafted)

The table service is of gold, and so beautifully wrought that it must be of immense value.
Bram Stoker -- Dracula

wrought = worked

2 —as in:
the damage she has wrought

Definition

caused to happen or occurred as a consequence

wrought = caused (made to happen)

Other Uses (with this meaning)

wrought = caused

Great deeds are usually wrought at great risks.
Herodotus
When we do the best that we can, we never know what miracle is wrought in our life, or in the life of another.
Helen Keller
What difference does it make to the dead, the orphans and the homeless, whether the mad destruction is wrought under the name of totalitarianism or the holy name of liberty or democracy?
Mahatma Gandhi
I could not repress a sigh at the thought of the havoc war had wrought in this part of England...
Burroughs, Edgar Rice -- The Lost Continent
And what vast changes of society and of nations had been wrought by sudden convulsions or by slow degrees since that era!
Hawthorne, Nathaniel -- Grandfather's Chair
Grief has so wrought on him, he takes false shadows for true substances.
Shakespeare, William -- Titus Andronicus
  Then gave I her, so tutored by my art,
  A sleeping potion; which so took effect
  As I intended, for it wrought on her
  The form of death.
William Shakespeare -- Romeo and Juliet

wrought = brought

That poor soul who has wrought all this misery is the saddest case of all.
Bram Stoker -- Dracula

wrought = caused

Less commonly:

More rarely, and especially in the form overwrought or wrought-up, wrought may mean "excessively nervous" or "agitated".

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