How to Use cursive in a Sentence

cursive

1 of 2 adjective

• The man who drove the tow truck had a patch on his shirt that said gene in cursive letters.
  — Kate Dicamillo, Harper's Magazine, 9 June 2023
• Some members raised concerns about kids who couldn't read cursive or sign their name in the script.
  — Arika Herron, Indianapolis Star, 4 Jan. 2018
• Its symbol is a cursive M with a loop attached to its right side.
  — Gabi Thorne, Allure, 2 Feb. 2022
• In one portrait, a woman grins in bliss as a breeze tousles her cursive curls.
  — Stephen Humphries, The Christian Science Monitor, 17 June 2021
• This style works best with a straight font rather than an extravagant cursive style.
  — Mary Shannon Wells, Southern Living, 24 Jan. 2018
• Much of the cursive debate centers around time in the classroom.
  — Ava Berger, NPR, 19 Mar. 2026
• The sign is against a white background and has gold, cursive lettering.
  — Jenni Fink, MSNBC Newsweek, 5 Nov. 2025
• Blair wore a nude bodysuit adorned with cursive writings and a merlot fur stole draped across her body.
  — Lauren Alexis Fisher, Harper's BAZAAR, 10 Feb. 2018
• Let your hairline take center stage with this freestyle, face-framing cursive look.
  — Chelsea Hall, Marie Claire, 5 Oct. 2020
• Right now, cursive is only being taught in some classrooms.
  — Madeleine Wright, CBS News, 20 Apr. 2026
• The names are painted with cursive flourishes onto white bricks, one name per brick.
  — Steve Lopez, latimes.com, 13 June 2018
• All of us, not just students and scholars, will be affected by cursive’s loss.
  — Drew Gilpin Faust, The Atlantic, 16 Sep. 2022
• The gallery walls were festooned with neon cursive signs, each of them slang for female genitalia.
  — Dana Goodyear, The New Yorker, 8 Mar. 2017
• The Palmer Method sends graceful cursive gazelles loping across the page.
  — Murr Brewster, The Christian Science Monitor, 16 Aug. 2022
• More than a dozen other states are reinstating cursive lessons in schools.
  — Jessie Balmert, Cincinnati.com, 20 June 2018
• That's what their brochure said, their posters, their website, the sentence scrolling across the screen in stately cursive.
  — Seija Rankin, EW.com, 2 Nov. 2020
• Younger students learn how to print while older students learn cursive, Keane said.
  — Gloria Casas, chicagotribune.com, 27 May 2021
• Vegetables glisten on their plates; drinks are chilled with cubes of ice etched with a cursive P.
  — Tom Sietsema, Washington Post, 20 Oct. 2023
• The third tier was covered in gold sparkles and displayed Turner's first name in a gold cursive cutout.
  — Abigail Adams, PEOPLE.com, 23 Feb. 2022
• Its symbol is a cursive M that extends into a small arrow at the tip.
  — Gabi Thorne, Allure, 2 Feb. 2022
• Every zone gets a label in a typeface made from Shearer’s own loopy cursive.
  — Kyle Chayka, The New Yorker, 23 Sep. 2020
• The Spruce suggests using black or blue ink and not using cursive writing.
  — Jacob Livesay, USA TODAY, 29 June 2022
• Written in ornate cursive by a general’s aide and signed by Maj.
  — Theresa MacHemer, Smithsonian Magazine, 19 June 2020
• The numbers and cursive 'Indiana' on the front will have the look of limestone.
  — Scott Horner, Indianapolis Star, 24 Aug. 2017
• Rubs his head, displaying the William Blake cursive tattoo on his arm.
  — Chris Ballard, SI.com, 2 Oct. 2019
• So how will the new law affect cursive-writing instruction in local schools?
  — Megan Vaz, Sun Sentinel, 30 Apr. 2026
• Her handwriting was dense cursive, all loops that looked identical to my eye, and there were years of journals to go through.
  — Jackie Snow, IEEE Spectrum, 13 May 2026
• This 5x11-inch bamboo wood serving board is engraved with mom's name and the date in a cursive font.
  — Emily Vanschmus, Better Homes & Gardens, 15 Apr. 2022
• This 5x11-inch bamboo wood serving board is engraved with mom’s name and the date in a cursive font.
  — Cheyann Neades, Better Homes & Gardens, 7 Apr. 2021
• Leising has been pushing a bill to require the teaching of cursive writing for seven years now.
  — Arika Herron, Indianapolis Star, 13 Feb. 2018

cursive

2 of 2 noun

• He writes in cursive when he takes notes.
• In fact, many Gen Zers can’t even read cursive.
  — Preston Fore, Fortune, 21 Oct. 2025
• Starting in third grade, students learn to read and write in cursive.
  — Megan Vaz, Sun Sentinel, 30 Apr. 2026
• Some names are written with pen in cursive, right onto the record label.
  — Matt Wake | [email protected], al, 23 Oct. 2019
• Polemicists lament that cursive is going the way of the dodo.
  — Jennifer Schuessler, New York Times, 12 July 2018
• The paper had yellowed from age and the cursive was so ornate the words were hard to make out.
  — Emily St. Martin, Los Angeles Times, 11 June 2026
• Her name, in her high schooler’s cursive, is still carved into a closet.
  — Marina Magloire, Harper's BAZAAR, 6 May 2021
• Pruzansky went to work and wrote out the story on a few sheets of paper, in her neat cursive.
  — Karen Billing, San Diego Union-Tribune, 4 Aug. 2025
• Pruzansky went to work and wrote out the story on a few sheets of paper, in her neat cursive.
  — Karen Billing, San Diego Union-Tribune, 4 Aug. 2025
• On his right, there’s a little heart, his name written in cursive next to Annabell’s.
  — Cayla Harris, San Antonio Express-News, 24 May 2023
• To me, learning cursive is like learning to pedal a bike or glide into turns on skis.
  — Sue Wunder, The Christian Science Monitor, 7 Feb. 2023
• Her name was written in cursive script at the bottom, following by her dates.
  — Chloe Foussianes, Town & Country, 18 Apr. 2019
• The first names of each of the victims were written in neat cursive across the bottom of each image.
  — Irfan Khan, latimes.com, 24 Mar. 2018
• On her right wrist, the mom of two has each of her children's names tattooed in cursive with their date of birth below it.
  — Angela Andaloro, Peoplemag, 23 Oct. 2023
• Another picture showed the group's names written in cursive in the sand.
  — Marina Watts, PEOPLE, 12 Jan. 2026
• In the music video, it's seen after the second verse, written in cursive on a neon sign in the background.
  — Glamour, 25 May 2019
• More than three dozen kids responded; some just drew pictures, others wrote in perfect cursive.
  — Mica Rosenberg, CNN Money, 10 Feb. 2026
• More than three dozen kids responded; some just drew pictures, others wrote in perfect cursive.
  — Mica Rosenberg, ProPublica, 9 Feb. 2026
• Anya wrote this down in a spiral notebook, in her particular spiked cursive.
  — Nell Freudenberger, Harpers Magazine, 27 Jan. 2026
• The backlash to that decision prompted a number of states to bring back cursive in recent years.
  — Caitlin O'Kane, CBS News, 8 May 2018
• The menu is still written in her handwriting, thanks to technology that made a font out of her cursive.
  — Brett Anderson, New York Times, 24 Dec. 2019
• Not long after, a case of pinot noir arrived, with a note of congratulations in neat cursive.
  — Chris Ballard, Los Angeles Times, 25 Mar. 2021
• For 11-year-old Ryan Larkin, cursive is both new and challenging.
  — Madeleine Wright, CBS News, 20 Apr. 2026
• The artist has shared similar tattoo art on his page featuring words written in cursive.
  — Natasha Dado, PEOPLE.com, 25 Jan. 2022
• The message, which is difficult to read, is written in cursive in black marker on a white sheet of paper.
  — Nick Lichtenberg, Fortune, 9 Sep. 2025
• On either side of the monogram were the couple's wedding date and location in cursive.
  — Ashlyn Robinette, PEOPLE, 4 July 2026
• 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
• My grandma would keep score with a notepad and neat cursive, listing each of seven rounds, our scores and a star when someone got a joker.
  — Laura Johnston, cleveland, 21 Nov. 2020
• The latter element will be drawn on in loopy cursive — further contributing to the bag’s chic looks.
  — Stacia Datskovska, Footwear News, 3 Sep. 2019
• Mostly hidden on the inside of her right arm, the tiny piece is a word in cursive that was too small for most people to decipher.
  — Evelyn Wang, Teen Vogue, 12 Oct. 2018