How to Use cuneiform in a Sentence

cuneiform

noun

• The cuneiform script is tiny, and crammed tightly to all four edges of the tablet.
  — Robert MacFarlane, The New York Review of Books, 5 Oct. 2022
• Elsewhere in the temple were clay tablets covered in cuneiform script.
  — Elizabeth Winkler, The New Yorker, 19 Nov. 2022
• On the clay cylinder are four columns of text, written in two different styles of cuneiform script.
  — Literary Hub, 26 Aug. 2025
• The cuneiform script revealed that the city was indeed Mardaman.
  — James Rogers, Fox News, 17 May 2018
• Its impact will be equal to the invention of the internet and cuneiform.
  — Kian Bakhtiari, Forbes, 27 Feb. 2021
• Akkadian is a Semitic language, and it was written in a cuneiform script.
  — Brigit Katz, Smithsonian, 7 Sep. 2017
• Johns becomes a scribe incising clay, making his own abstract cuneiform tablets.
  — Jerry Saltz, Vulture, 22 Sep. 2021
• On it, cuneiform text describes the opposite side, including details about the sizes of the fields.
  — Caroline Delbert, Popular Mechanics, 16 Aug. 2021
• The shipping labels on these packages falsely described the cuneiform tablets as tile samples.
  — Peggy McGlone, chicagotribune.com, 2 May 2018
• The Imago Mundi is a simple clay tablet carved with cuneiform writing.
  — Shannon Stirone, Longreads, 29 Oct. 2020
• Inside, the vessels contained more than 100 clay tablets with cuneiform script scrawled across the surface.
  — Gabe Allen, Discover Magazine, 28 June 2022
• The recent return results from years of effort and includes thousands of cuneiform tablets, ancient seals, and other items.
  — Lindsey McGinnis, The Christian Science Monitor, 2 Sep. 2021
• Using a reed stylus, people pressed wedge‑shaped marks into clay tablets, creating cuneiform.
  — William Crane, Forbes.com, 27 Jan. 2026
• Each period of cuneiform’s use had a unique font style, as well as a language or dialect typical of the era, and even preferences in the signs and words used.
  — Literary Hub, 26 Aug. 2025
• The artifacts included cuneiform tablets, clay bullae, and cylinder seals.
  — Natasha Bach, Fortune, 2 May 2018
• The artifacts being forfeited include cuneiform tablets and bricks, clay bullae and cylinder seals.
  — Dan Whitcomb, Alaska Dispatch News, 6 July 2017
• The other contains a description of the land—including marshy areas, a threshing floor and a nearby tower—in cuneiform script.
  — Livia Gershon, Smithsonian Magazine, 5 Aug. 2021
• Those artifacts are among a half-million or so cuneiform tablets in museum collections around the world and are of interest to scholars and researchers.
  — Washington Post, 29 July 2021
• The Sumerians, who first put stylus to stone more than 5,000 years ago, used the star symbol to denote a king or a god on cuneiform tablets.
  — Cory Oldweiler, Star Tribune, 19 Feb. 2021
• These soldiers’ symptoms were recorded not on paper charts, but on cuneiform tablets inscribed in Mesopotamia more than 3,000 years ago.
  — Erin Blakemore, National Geographic, 16 June 2020
• However, the bone at the base of our big toe—called the medial cuneiform—has a connection for the big toe that is more curved and slightly more angled than what is found in humans today.
  — Jason Daley, Smithsonian, 5 July 2018
• The earliest surviving recipes, which give instructions for a series of meaty stews, are inscribed on cuneiform tablets from ancient Mesopotamia.
  — Helen Zoe Veit, Smithsonian, 19 Sep. 2017
• The narrative gallops on to Mesopotamia, Nineveh, clay tablets, cuneiform and Gilgamesh.
  — John Sutherland, New York Times, 2 Jan. 2018
• Yet even unreadable texts—cuneiforms, hieroglyphics, glyphs—declare (even before they are decoded) the solid existence of the past.
  — Helen Vendler, Harper's magazine, 20 Jan. 2020
• Pollinger pointed out one near the entrance that will hold the Gilgamesh dream tablet, a cuneiform tablet inscribed with a portion of the Epic of Gilgamesh.
  — Lizzie Wade, Science | AAAS, 16 Oct. 2017
• Green is creating a permanent, public home for his collection of handwritten scrolls, rare books and ancient cuneiform tablets the family has amassed over the decades.
  — Forbes Wealth Team, Forbes, 13 Feb. 2023
• This object captures perfectly the many layers of meaning, language, and history embodied in cuneiform and clay.
  — Literary Hub, 26 Aug. 2025
• The cuneiform on the clay drum is itself a museum of Mesopotamia’s past—each character contains layer upon layer of history.
  — Literary Hub, 26 Aug. 2025
• Pottery vessels, in which cuneiform tablets were stored, are standing in the corner of a room from the Middle Assyrian period.
  — Denise Chow, NBC News, 2 June 2022
• The troop-placement trenches, by contrast, dug to protect several hundred men in nuclear-warfare drills, look, from the sky, like the marks of a reed stylus on an ancient cuneiform tablet.
  — Max Norman, The New Yorker, 7 Nov. 2019