How to Use handwriting in a Sentence

handwriting

noun
  • Her handwriting is nearly impossible to read.
  • The handwriting has been on the wall for a very long time.
    Carol Cain, Detroit Free Press, 28 May 2022
  • Hunter Renfroe has been around long enough to be able to read the handwriting on the wall.
    Todd Rosiak, Journal Sentinel, 24 Nov. 2022
  • The golfer and his mother were able to help Mark write the words out in his own handwriting.
    Natasha Dye, Peoplemag, 6 Apr. 2023
  • At the top of the note, McRae apologizes for his handwriting.
    Darcie Moran, Detroit Free Press, 10 Mar. 2023
  • The poster also sees some of his handwriting of Face‘s lyrics featured on the record.
    Tomás Mier, Rolling Stone, 10 Oct. 2023
  • The handwriting was being written on the wall that many years ago.
    John Schandelmeier, Anchorage Daily News, 21 May 2022
  • Clara Bryant Ford’s recipe for date bars This recipe was found in Clara’s handwriting.
    Mark Phelan, Detroit Free Press, 27 Aug. 2023
  • White’s handwriting was faint and cramped, but on the back of the form Kitchen had rewritten some of his answers in cursive.
    The New Yorker, 17 Jan. 2022
  • In scratchy handwriting that was hard to make out, the document said that the parents’ first names were Miguel and María.
    Nicholas Casey, New York Times, 27 Sep. 2022
  • The package came in the mail with my name and address written in my mom’s round, curly handwriting.
    Alex Zaragoza, Los Angeles Times, 20 Oct. 2023
  • The handwriting was Helena’s, but the ideas were mostly Mark’s and mine.
    Lara Vapnyar, The New Yorker, 4 Sep. 2023
  • The caveat, of course: If your handwriting isn’t fairly legible, the apps won’t work well.
    Kim Komando, USA TODAY, 12 May 2022
  • Claver-Carone refused to submit a handwriting sample as part of the probe, the report said.
    Joshua Goodman, BostonGlobe.com, 22 Sep. 2022
  • On the plaque, above a picture of the crew in their spacesuits, is an inscription in Chawla’s handwriting.
    Dallas News, 1 Feb. 2023
  • First Zugay saw a tweet from one of Peck's daughters, alerting her to the handwriting match.
    Catherine E. Shoichet, CNN, 2 May 2022
  • There, on the street, in handwriting that didn’t belong to her, was her name written again and again: Allie.
    Washington Post, 18 Dec. 2021
  • Start by filling between a half and a whole page with fresh handwriting.
    Sandra Gutierrez G., Popular Science, 31 May 2023
  • Sure, no announcement has been made about any potential move by the school, but the handwriting is on the wall.
    Jeremy Cluff, The Arizona Republic, 5 Apr. 2023
  • Skerritt’s letters from a state prison in Shirley were penned in small, neat handwriting.
    Laura Crimaldi, BostonGlobe.com, 15 Mar. 2023
  • Engrave it with a loved one’s handwriting or a favorite font.
    Cristian Esteban, Rolling Stone, 1 Dec. 2023
  • Simply upload a copy of your recipe for the front of the platter and a note in your handwriting (or maybe grandma’s handwriting) to add to the back.
    Melanie Fincher, Southern Living, 9 Sep. 2023
  • But my handwriting has always been bad, so that’s not much of a compliment from me.
    Damon Young, Washington Post, 29 Nov. 2022
  • Ever flip through your grandparents' old box of recipe cards and marvel at the handwriting, the thought of how many times the hands that penned that recipe made the meal from scratch?
    Dana McMahan, The Courier-Journal, 2 May 2023
  • Smith has sent me a picture of a notebook, its pages brimming with her handwriting.
    Harper's BAZAAR, 28 Nov. 2022
  • And one of the things notated in his handwriting on this piece of legal paper was snow outside the Matthews house was raked.
    CBS News, 8 Jan. 2022
  • The check marks and hearts that litter the page in Ruffin's handwriting are her system for keeping track of laughs and nice moments.
    Maureen Lee Lenker, EW.com, 4 Oct. 2022
  • Coat wood with clear varnish to protect the handwriting from the elements.
    Jill Gleeson, Country Living, 23 Mar. 2023
  • Even his handwriting seemed to evince a vast inner solitude.
    László F. Földényi, Harper’s Magazine , 13 Mar. 2023
  • The handwriting seems pretty clear for Chicagoland Speedway.
    Dave Kallmann, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 1 June 2022

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