How to Use write into in a Sentence

write into

phrasal verb
  • So serious, in fact, they’re now written into the law of the land.
    Christine Chitnis, Condé Nast Traveler, 24 May 2023
  • In other words, that was a plot point that hadn’t yet been written into the story.
    Kate Aurthur, Variety, 2 Aug. 2023
  • Some of the red-meat riffing was Trump going off script, but plenty of it had been written into the speech as well.
    Eric Cortellessa/butler, TIME, 19 July 2024
  • But there’s an escape clause written into the deal: Trump can seek a waiver of the lockup from the post-merger board.
    Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times, 22 Mar. 2024
  • Peter doesn’t tend to like to write into something that’s still evolving.
    Gary Goldstein, Los Angeles Times, 17 June 2024
  • Those dollar amounts are written into the new tax rate chart that’s included in the full legal text of the measure.
    East Bay Times Editorial, The Mercury News, 1 Mar. 2024
  • Fishel pointed to an incident in which her weight was written into an episode of Boy Meets World.
    Shania Russell, EW.com, 13 Aug. 2024
  • These four poets know how to write into heartache, tenderness, joy and laughter.
    José Olivarez, Los Angeles Times, 1 Nov. 2023
  • This addition was written into the petition before it was signed by the judge.
    Chris Willman, Variety, 9 May 2024
  • Out of the silence, the sisters would produce shelves of books between them—consumed with naming the unnameable, with writing into the dark.
    Parul Sehgal, The New Yorker, 14 Aug. 2023
  • The year was 2012 and the impending Mayan apocalypse was all the rage, so naturally it was written into Glee.
    Vulture, 19 Dec. 2023
  • And the story remains written into the roughness and topography of the living rock.
    IEEE Spectrum, 24 Nov. 2023
  • That was largely a consequence of impulse: Trump’s attacks and provocative asides were not written into the speech.
    Eric Cortellessa/milwaukee, TIME, 19 July 2024
  • Mayoral control ought to be written into the law with no expiration date at all.
    New York Daily News Editorial Board, New York Daily News, 1 Feb. 2024
  • When a slum tenement in Philadelphia collapsed, the event was written into that city’s version of the show.
    Adam Hochschild, Smithsonian Magazine, 26 Oct. 2023
  • That is far beyond the 1.5 degrees Celsius limit written into the Paris agreement.
    Brady Dennis, Anchorage Daily News, 8 Sep. 2023
  • The story is based on an Elmore Leonard novel that does not feature Givens, but he has been written into the story and brought to Detroit for reasons that are a bit fuzzy.
    Matthew Gilbert, BostonGlobe.com, 18 July 2023
  • It was written into the law that established the school along with another college, in Gainesville, reserved for white students.
    Sharon Johnson, Fortune, 7 Jan. 2024
  • Advertisement Thompson said the concept of a love song — and by extension, a breakup song — may be written into our genes.
    Karen Kaplan, Los Angeles Times, 19 Apr. 2024
  • The process is written into the Constitution and is the most powerful check that Congress has on the executive branch.
    Farnoush Amiri, The Christian Science Monitor, 13 Sep. 2023
  • Whether a last-minute stop on a road trip or written into meticulous plans, these sites are at once secluded and inclusive.
    Jessica Chapel, Condé Nast Traveler, 16 Aug. 2023
  • However, many experts said at the time that abandoning the deal would have cost Musk much more than a $1 billion penalty written into the agreement.
    Irina Ivanova, CBS News, 1 May 2023
  • Aloha – a term that holds the concepts of kindness, unity, and patience – is so central to Hawaiian identity that it’s written into the state’s laws.
    Christine Sarkis, USA TODAY, 23 Apr. 2024
  • All those privileges were written into the code, which Wang was responsible for.
    Elizabeth Lopatto, The Verge, 6 Oct. 2023
  • And those tolls, written into statute, will collect $3 million in cash every day, totaling $1 billion a year, which can be used to sell $15 billion on the bond market.
    New York Daily News Editorial Board, New York Daily News, 11 June 2024
  • The tense self-restraint that’s written into the character converges with that of Gladstone’s performance.
    Richard Brody, The New Yorker, 23 Jan. 2024
  • Over the years, a wide range of government programs and taxes have been written into legislation.
    Robert Hormats, Fortune, 21 Sep. 2023
  • But ever since then, the San Diego Ethics Commission has been constrained by some of the very rules and practices that were written into its governing documents back in 2001.
    Jeff McDonald, San Diego Union-Tribune, 27 May 2024
  • But the group is more individualized by their looks than any substance written into their characters.
    David Rooney, The Hollywood Reporter, 10 July 2024
  • Modern notions of democracy and religious liberty were written into the founding of the United States, and yet a portion of its population has always looked to God and the Bible in moments of crisis.
    John Kaag, The Atlantic, 29 Aug. 2024

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