How to Use handwrite in a Sentence

handwrite

verb
  • One of the requirements involves handwriting the names of 6,756 Americans who were killed in the Iraq and Afghanistan wars.
    Allen Kim, CNN, 27 Aug. 2019
  • Customers choose a card online, handwrite a message on a piece of paper, take a photo on their phone and upload it to the website.
    Lisa Kanarek, Wired, 26 Dec. 2021
  • The best use-case for the AirBar was handwriting my signature when filling out online forms.
    Lisa Eadicicco, Time, 18 July 2017
  • Just the simple act of handwriting your goals, then, brings you closer to implementing them.
    Amy Carleton, The Cut, 11 Oct. 2017
  • To use Hallmark’s Sign and Send, people need to handwrite a note on blank white paper with black ink and take a photo of the message using a mobile device.
    Ann-Marie Alcántara, WSJ, 27 July 2021
  • Rowling planned out the world of Harry Potter for five years, handwriting most of her notes on scraps of paper, before beginning to write the first book.
    Carine Lavache, Cosmopolitan, 28 July 2017
  • What many do not know, however, is that their votes are subject to handwriting analysis.
    Amy Chance, sacbee, 11 June 2018
  • With its newest iPad, Apple is showcasing how the Pencil can be used to sketch and handwrite in slideshow presentations and reports, among other tasks.
    Lisa Eadicicco, Time, 28 Mar. 2018
  • Inline drawing is another new feature that lets Apple Pencil users tap anywhere in a note or email and handwrite a message.
    Valentina Palladino, Ars Technica, 12 Sep. 2017
  • Which is why for the past few weeks, since finishing 33 treatments for throat cancer, part of Snyder’s daily routine has been handwriting thank-you notes to everyone who wrote him.
    George Schroeder, USA TODAY, 8 May 2017
  • Sailors would have to navigate with paper charts and sextant, catch rain for water, handwrite their logs, and communicate by radio.
    Longreads, 5 Oct. 2022
  • For example, rather than just standing and making small talk at a viewing, families can ask mourners to handwrite letters that will be placed under the deceased’s hand in the casket, if there is one.
    Rosie Colosi, NBC News, 16 Oct. 2019
  • Parra denies telling Sainz to show Cano special treatment, including directing him to handwrite a note.
    Gustavo Solis, sandiegouniontribune.com, 2 Apr. 2018
  • What initially caught my attention, is the fact that a post-millennial student actually took time to handwrite a note rather than an e-mail.
    Phillip Morris, cleveland.com, 9 June 2019
  • Symbolizing travel and exploration, people can handwrite a message on the bench and share photos.
    Celia Shatzman, Forbes, 7 Apr. 2021
  • At a time where fewer and fewer people handwrite, robots are becoming experts.
    David Grossman, Popular Mechanics, 3 July 2018
  • On Monday, the students went through a presentation on handwriting analysis, received a 911 call and learned the case was an abduction from witnesses.
    Talis Shelbourne, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 9 July 2019
  • From the beginning of March up until the morning of graduation at on June 2, Reaves scoured through transcripts, emails and his own memories to handwrite a personalized note to each of the 459 graduating seniors.
    Nikki Ross, USA TODAY, 21 June 2021
  • The young Ronald Reagan read Coolidge’s autobiography and 50 years later would be handwriting the hundreds of fast, crisp radio speeches that helped to launch his successful run for the presidency.
    Thomas Mallon, WSJ, 7 Feb. 2020
  • Haldeman switched from handwriting the diaries to taping them late in 1970, only months before the White House, interested in better record-keeping, began taping itself.
    Francine Prose and Thomas Mallon, New York Times, 11 May 2017
  • The department sued the three counties last week seeking a court order requiring them to provide primary election results that include mail-in ballots on whose envelope the voter did not handwrite a date.
    From Usa Today Network and Wire Reports, USA TODAY, 22 July 2022
  • Moreover, in handwriting the movements are continuously variable, which is much more mentally demanding than making single strokes, as in printing A, E, F, H and so on.
    Monte Whaley, The Denver Post, 30 May 2017
  • The singer, who opted to make her note extra special by handwriting it, shared that the community’s unwavering loyalty and acceptance uplift and inspire her.
    Patrick Crowley, Billboard, 13 Feb. 2018
  • In Metesky’s creepily neat bedroom, detectives found a notebook filled with handwriting similar to F.P.’s block lettering.
    Michael Cannell, Smithsonian, 29 Apr. 2017
  • In Metesky’s creepily neat bedroom, detectives found a notebook filled with handwriting similar to F.P.’s block lettering.
    Michael Cannell, Smithsonian, 2 May 2017
  • After all, people have been handwriting in lowercase for over a thousand years, and even the melodramatic early Victorians didn’t capitalize everything.
    Gretchen McCulloch, WIRED, 23 July 2019
  • The app also wanted help transcribing handwriting scrawled on touchscreens, and recognizing whether sentences from online reviews raving about cauliflower or ranting about builders expressed positive, negative, or neutral emotions.
    Tom Simonite, WIRED, 5 Apr. 2018
  • Her identity was unmasked by investigators through handwriting analysis.
    Benjamin Weiser, New York Times, 9 June 2019
  • Such jobs include non-real-estate appraisal services, business brokerage services, commodity inspection, handwriting analysis, and pipeline inspection.
    USA TODAY, 26 Dec. 2017

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