How to Use handwriting in a Sentence

handwriting

noun

• Her handwriting is nearly impossible to read.
• The handwriting has been on the wall for a very long time.
  — Carol Cain, Detroit Free Press, 28 May 2022
• Hunter Renfroe has been around long enough to be able to read the handwriting on the wall.
  — Todd Rosiak, Journal Sentinel, 24 Nov. 2022
• And at the very top of the plate is the Drake equation, rendered in Dad’s handwriting.
  — Nadia Drake, Scientific American, 14 Oct. 2024
• The golfer and his mother were able to help Mark write the words out in his own handwriting.
  — Natasha Dye, Peoplemag, 6 Apr. 2023
• The handwriting was small, and the list covered at least three full pages.
  — Devin Gordon, New York Times, 6 June 2019
• Durst couldn’t tell the handwriting in the two letters apart.
  — Washington Post, 18 Sep. 2021
• The very first logo on the can was my cousin’s handwriting.
  — Megan Ditrolio, Marie Claire, 23 Jan. 2020
• But Frank was more the scratchy handwriting type, prone to splotch—not one to weep, let alone for long.
  — Carlos Valladares, ARTnews.com, 4 Oct. 2024
• At the top of the note, McRae apologizes for his handwriting.
  — Darcie Moran, Detroit Free Press, 10 Mar. 2023
• The poster also sees some of his handwriting of Face‘s lyrics featured on the record.
  — Tomás Mier, Rolling Stone, 10 Oct. 2023
• The handwriting was being written on the wall that many years ago.
  — John Schandelmeier, Anchorage Daily News, 21 May 2022
• Booker inked the words in Bryant’s handwriting on the inside of his arm.
  — Iliana Limón Romero, Los Angeles Times, 4 June 2021
• My mother still has a batch of them, in Mrs. Gerbe’s handwriting, but in my voice.
  — Marc Myers, WSJ, 19 June 2018
• Clara Bryant Ford’s recipe for date bars This recipe was found in Clara’s handwriting.
  — Mark Phelan, Detroit Free Press, 27 Aug. 2023
• The handwriting is on the wall for the workers at one of the last standing small auto plants in Detroit.
  — Charles McNulty, latimes.com, 15 June 2018
• The debate around the importance of handwriting was put to rest a while back.
  — Phil Wahba, Fortune, 18 June 2024
• David Bills wrote a short letter to his wife Nov. 15, his handwriting a messy scrawl.
  — Jessica Miller, The Salt Lake Tribune, 13 Sep. 2021
• 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
• Looking for a fun way to help kids flex their handwriting skills?
  — Sian Babish, chicagotribune.com, 4 Aug. 2020
• The sheets have curled under the pressure of her handwriting, so compressed the pages are more black than white.
  — Elizabeth Koh and Carol Marbin Miller, miamiherald, 24 May 2018
• In scratchy handwriting that was hard to make out, the document said that the parents’ first names were Miguel and María.
  — Nicholas Casey, New York Times, 27 Sep. 2022
• The package came in the mail with my name and address written in my mom’s round, curly handwriting.
  — Alex Zaragoza, Los Angeles Times, 20 Oct. 2023
• The handwriting was Helena’s, but the ideas were mostly Mark’s and mine.
  — Lara Vapnyar, The New Yorker, 4 Sep. 2023
• Midyears are coming and people can look at the handwriting on the wall—at my race—and other races like it.
  — Andrew Duehren, WSJ, 13 July 2018
• The caveat, of course: If your handwriting isn’t fairly legible, the apps won’t work well.
  — Kim Komando, USA TODAY, 12 May 2022
• Some of the reports were even written in the boys’ own awkward handwriting.
  — Petula Dvorak, Washington Post, 24 May 2018
• Claver-Carone refused to submit a handwriting sample as part of the probe, the report said.
  — Joshua Goodman, BostonGlobe.com, 22 Sep. 2022
• Flipping through pages filled with different sets of handwriting was kind of like flipping through a guest book.
  — New York Times, 24 Nov. 2024
• The app lets users easily modify, align, and reflow their handwritten text: Think of it like resizing a text box, only with handwriting instead of a computer font.
  — Nicholas Gordon, Fortune Asia, 2 Nov. 2024

Last Updated: 20 Jan 2025