wrought - use in sentences

Object

  • havoc: A plowman and his great plow, now standing idle in the furrow, had in a day wrought a terrible havoc.
  • miracle: The following day's concert wrought the miracle which was trailered in the opening paragraph of this account.
  • change: By postulating the concept of a mechanical universe he wrought immense changes in European man's conception of the heavens.

Adjective complement with noun phrase

  • see: Nobody wants to turn on their TV on a daily basis and see havoc wrought by terrorists.

Modifies a noun

  • ironwork: At Letham Hill nearby, the Errol Hut Smithy and woodwork shop produces excellent wrought ironwork, and fine furniture and wood turning.
  • iron: Ensure wrought iron or steel gates can not easily be climbed.
  • havoc: In his younger days the Admiral had seen service in the China Seas where two powerful pirate fleets wrought havoc among shipping.
  • gate: Vast urns, old wrought iron gates, statues - dream on, Keane.
  • railing: Surrounding the front garden were eighteenth century black wrought iron railings, tipped with gold paint.
  • bedstead: Master suite The Master suite is furnished with a king sized bed and wrought iron bedstead with four poster ivory canopy.

Modifying Another Word

  • curiously: It was curiously wrought with gold and purple, and fastened to the ephod with chains of gold.
  • finely: Each of his understated, finely wrought novels has been published to international acclaim.
  • exquisitely: He presents a succession of many scenes, exquisitely wrought, of Johnson amid widely various settings of Eighteenth-Century England.
  • emotionally: What follows is an acute and emotionally wrought portrait of a man and his brood consumed with guilt and despair.
  • extensively: Mr. Hopkirk wrought extensively the coal which abounds in Dalbeth.
  • formerly: Copper was formerly wrought here, but the mine eventually became unremunerative, and the working was discontinued.

Followed by an intransitive particle

  • out: The great redemption had not yet been fully wrought out into ultimate fact.
  • up: We are suffering under the effects of caged competition, already wrought up to agony.

Used with adjective complement

  • have: I have wrought in these mines for the last 4 years.

Preposition: by

  • war: The establishment of the Interstate Commerce Commission was hailed as a first step toward ending the devastation wrought by rate wars.

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