How to Use glyph in a Sentence
glyph
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It’s a geo glyph, and the walkways are shaped like a snail.
—Joanne Kempinger Demski, Journal Sentinel, 7 July 2022
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Aha, does this mean there’ll be glyphs in the Nothing Phone (2)?
—David Phelan, Forbes, 17 Mar. 2023
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Outside, his tag is a stark glyph in the morning light.
—Oliver Munday, The Atlantic, 15 Oct. 2022
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There’s a certain corniness to the whole sci-fi setup, One’s journey in the glyph.
—Elisa Gabbert, New York Times, 3 Mar. 2020
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Formerly Known as Prince has dumped the stupid glyph and gone back to being plain ol’ Prince.
—Wired Staff, WIRED, 17 May 2000
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The bold crimson frames smaller areas where black glyphs dance on white.
—Mark Jenkins, Washington Post, 25 Oct. 2019
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His eyes are wise and ancient, like cryptic glyphs carved into a rock of cold mountain.
—Jeff Weiss, Spin, 21 Aug. 2023
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For the time being, the researchers remain unsure as to why the creature would have been deemed important enough to record in a glyph.
—Daisy Hernandez, Popular Mechanics, 18 Mar. 2020
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In the conference room, his trademark glyph was etched into a long glass table.
—Dan Piepenbring, The New Yorker, 2 Sep. 2019
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Finding the new glyph proved difficult even with Watson’s help.
—Jason Daley, Smithsonian, 11 Dec. 2014
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In the 2011 series that gives this show its title, the glyphs are ribs of a central spine and stand on a field split between two blocks of gently contrasting pastels.
—Mark Jenkins, Washington Post, 22 Nov. 2019
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The metates also display many puzzling pseudo-glyphs on them that have yet to be studied and deciphered.
—National Geographic, 9 Feb. 2016
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But the rest of the glyph’s anatomy was more mysterious, reports Hannah Osborne for Newsweek.
—Katherine J. Wu, Smithsonian Magazine, 19 Mar. 2020
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These are all Google versions of the Unicode Emoji 11.0 glyphs announced earlier this year.
—Ron Amadeo, Ars Technica, 7 June 2018
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When placed on top of a layered earth glyph, this symbol signifies moving ground—aka, an earthquake.
—National Geographic, 11 Oct. 2019
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The tall cylinder that held its machinery was painted pink and green and adorned with cubist faces, floating eyes and geometric glyphs.
—John Kelly, Washington Post, 23 July 2019
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The big difference when confronting the Confoundables is that instead of throwing balls on the screen players cast magic by tracing glyphs on the screen.
—Gieson Cacho, The Mercury News, 20 June 2019
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On the back is an engraving of the sign's universal glyph, housed by its elemental symbol.
—Joseph Deacetis, Forbes, 7 Dec. 2021
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The shell glyph also appears to have been used to indicate the concept of nothing more generally.
—Nathaniel Scharping, Discover Magazine, 9 Jan. 2021
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Within some codices, such glyphs are accompanied by dates.
—National Geographic, 11 Oct. 2019
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The same shell glyph that stands for zero in their number system appears here in a more abstract sense, signifying nothing.
—Nathaniel Scharping, Discover Magazine, 9 Jan. 2021
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Images of birds of prey with atlatls—the key elements of the glyph the Maya used to write Spearthrower Owl’s name—show up around Teotihuacan for centuries, far longer than any single person could have ruled.
—Lizzie Wade, Science | AAAS, 27 Feb. 2020
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Like the Nile-adjacent city that serves as the film's namesake, the glyphs are measured in millennia, a testament to humanity's will to endure.
—Inkoo Kang, The Hollywood Reporter, 4 Feb. 2020
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The gas stations are mundane glyphs in an automotive alphabet, read west to east like an English sentence.
—Jason Farago, New York Times, 7 Sep. 2023
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The glyph representing the Mayan calendar’s fourteenth month features the fruit, and Aztec nobles often received it as tribute.
—Alexander Sammon, Harper's Magazine, 16 Oct. 2023
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This fieldwork led to the discovery of the new Nazca lines, which feature 40 biomorphic glyphs depicting animals, plants or people.
—Jason Daley, Smithsonian, 11 Dec. 2014
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Your glyph on a colored background is about to get some serious visual competition.
—Adam Lashinsky, Fortune, 6 July 2020
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The numbers and glyphs frame his face in a perfect metaphor for the impossibly complex ideas that play out in his head, then somehow emerge comprehensibly and coherently on the page.
—Jeffrey Kluger, Time, 20 Feb. 2020
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Amid rubble buried beneath a Maya pyramid in Northern Guatemala, archaeologists found a broken bit of plaster with a glyph painted on it.
—Kiona N. Smith, Ars Technica, 15 Apr. 2022
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The Pisces glyph is two fish swimming in opposite directions, an expansion on the Gemini symbol.
—Aliza Kelly Faragher, Allure, 29 May 2018
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