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Examples of longhand in a Sentence
She wrote the book in longhand.
my computer was down for most of the afternoon, so I wrote out my report in longhand
Recent Examples on the Web
And while other companies began to digitize operations, Samyang’s employees did their books in longhand.
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Max Kim, Los Angeles Times, 5 Mar. 2024
Put to task by Aboriginal elders, her job was to take down their every word in longhand.
—Natasha Frost, New York Times, 4 Feb. 2024
The final, one of Brown’s first in college, required him to write the formulas on paper longhand, rather than typing them in a cell on computer spreadsheet, which can serve as a guide for the data to be input.
—oregonlive, 31 Aug. 2021
Another team oversaw the registration of evacuees, writing their names in longhand in a ledger.
—James Verini, New York Times, 1 Sep. 2022
Very solid reporting by Brandon Keim Blind woman writing a novel longhand didn't know her pen had run out.
—Ed Yong, Discover Magazine, 14 Apr. 2012
Like his eerie adult stories of revenge and comeuppance, his children’s books required many drafts, scribbled longhand on yellow legal pads.
—Michael Dirda, Washington Post, 28 Dec. 2022
Unplug for the afternoon and write some good, old-fashioned longhand letters.
—Lizz Schumer, Good Housekeeping, 7 Oct. 2022
As a magazine publisher familiar with the travails of manual typesetting and longhand bookkeeping, the Brand of the early 1980s found word processors and spreadsheets the most immediately mind-blowing feature of PCs.
—Benjamin Kunkel, The New Republic, 14 June 2022
Max Kim, Los Angeles Times, 5 Mar. 2024
Put to task by Aboriginal elders, her job was to take down their every word in longhand.
—Natasha Frost, New York Times, 4 Feb. 2024
The final, one of Brown’s first in college, required him to write the formulas on paper longhand, rather than typing them in a cell on computer spreadsheet, which can serve as a guide for the data to be input.
—oregonlive, 31 Aug. 2021
Another team oversaw the registration of evacuees, writing their names in longhand in a ledger.
—James Verini, New York Times, 1 Sep. 2022
Very solid reporting by Brandon Keim Blind woman writing a novel longhand didn't know her pen had run out.
—Ed Yong, Discover Magazine, 14 Apr. 2012
Like his eerie adult stories of revenge and comeuppance, his children’s books required many drafts, scribbled longhand on yellow legal pads.
—Michael Dirda, Washington Post, 28 Dec. 2022
Unplug for the afternoon and write some good, old-fashioned longhand letters.
—Lizz Schumer, Good Housekeeping, 7 Oct. 2022
As a magazine publisher familiar with the travails of manual typesetting and longhand bookkeeping, the Brand of the early 1980s found word processors and spreadsheets the most immediately mind-blowing feature of PCs.
—Benjamin Kunkel, The New Republic, 14 June 2022
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longhand
noun
long·hand
ˈlȯŋ-ˌhand 
1
: the characters or words written out fully by hand
2
: cursive writing
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