How to Use longhand in a Sentence

longhand

noun

• She wrote the book in longhand.
• These used to be written longhand by the Vice-Chamberlain of the Household, the no.
  — Kayleigh Roberts, Marie Claire, 25 Aug. 2019
• Plus, people had to take time to write them all down with a typewriter or in longhand back then.
  — Todd Shields, chicagotribune.com, 19 Apr. 2018
• Turkle doesn’t scribble these theories out longhand in a house off the grid.
  — Corinne Purtill, The New Yorker, 23 Mar. 2021
• Bowles was disciplined about her writing, done in longhand on legal pads at her desk with a view of the bay.
  — Sam Whiting, San Francisco Chronicle, 28 Oct. 2021
• Right after the storm, in her unlit office, Ms. De Feria wrote out a plea for help in longhand.
  — Joseph B. Treaster, New York Times, 8 Mar. 2018
• Every day from roughly 10 until 1, Pullman sits at his desk in a monkish study at the top of the house and produces three pages, longhand.
  — Sophie Elmhirst, New York Times, 12 Oct. 2017
• In longhand, of course. Vognar is a freelance writer based in Houston.
  — Chris Vognar, Los Angeles Times, 9 June 2021
• The authors, both of whom favor writing in longhand, spent a year passing handwritten drafts back and forth.
  — Tessa Berenson, Time, 4 June 2018
• Instead of dwelling on them, write them out longhand; this will slow down and moderate their frenetic pace.
  — Katherine Cusumano, New York Times, 31 Oct. 2020
• But does typing notes capture the concepts of a lecture or meeting as well as writing them longhand?
  — Heidi Mitchell, WSJ, 23 Oct. 2018
• For much of his adult life, Wilbur wrote every day, in longhand, then transcribed his work on a manual typewriter.
  — Hillel Italie, Sun-Sentinel.com, 15 Oct. 2017
• Resettled in the capital, Souter did his best to live without fuss, to jog, to eat his apples, core and all, to write longhand by natural light.
  — Joshua Prager, CNN, 23 Sep. 2021
• Unlike cooking or golf, where all the expensive equipment in the world won’t mask an inherent lack of skill, the right pen can make all the difference with your longhand.
  — Yang-Yi Goh, GQ, 25 June 2018
• Caro writes first drafts longhand, then types them up, complete with carbon copies, on a Smith-Corona Electra 210 typewriter.
  — Eleanor Hildebrandt, Popular Mechanics, 15 Apr. 2019
• Ivanov and her assistants work in longhand, writing down every diagnosis in the sick bay.
  — Smith Henderson, Popular Mechanics, 20 Nov. 2017
• During a two-hour flight here from Washington on Tuesday, Klobuchar immersed herself in a set of thick three-ring binders with pink soft-plastic covers, pausing to write longhand notes on index cards.
  — Jonathan Allen, NBC News, 26 June 2019
• Palmer wrote letters, cursive and in longhand, to virtually everyone who wrote him.
  — Mark Whicker, Orange County Register, 6 Apr. 2017
• Instead, they’re told to tell their supervisor verbally what happened or write it longhand.
  — Jason Dearen, sun-sentinel.com, 19 Nov. 2021
• Joan Atkinson points out that Steinbeck almost exclusively wrote his letters in longhand with a pencil.
  — Michael Alberty | For The Oregonian/oregonlive, oregonlive, 21 June 2021
• The technology on hand doesn’t seem to extend much beyond VHS, and Argento’s stubborn scribe writes in longhand on legal pads or on an ancient small green typewriter.
  — Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 28 Apr. 2022
• An award went to a young scientist who discovered that lecture notes taken longhand are more likely to be remembered than lecture notes taken on a keyboard.
  — Steve Rubenstein, SFChronicle.com, 1 Mar. 2020
• Write longhand, stream of consciousness, without editing.
  — Janine MacLachlan, Forbes, 16 Sep. 2021
• And cursive writing is making a comeback in schools around the country, as teachers work to train student handwriting who only know keyboarding, texting and printing out their words in longhand.
  — Ginger Pinson, Twin Cities, 5 Mar. 2017
• From there, the talk finally turned to the book, with the co-authors chatting about the experience of writing a book together for the first time - a process Chelsea Clinton said was made more difficult by her mother's insistence on writing longhand.
  — Brittany Shammas, chicagotribune.com, 1 Oct. 2019
• Those anecdotes were later stitched together, alongside journal entries and his own longhand writings.
  — Washington Post, 12 Apr. 2018
• But Tarver’s lawsuit, initially written in longhand and filed without an attorney in 2014, produced an unflattering portrait of Fye and her regard for those in her care at the Oglethorpe prison.
  — Danny Robbins, ajc, 11 Oct. 2017
• Written in meticulous longhand on the coarse brown manuscript paper used in North Korea, the book — a collection of seven short stories — was a fierce indictment of life in the totalitarian North.
  — Choe Sang-Hun, New York Times, 19 Mar. 2017
• In addition, laptop note takers fail to note vital graphic information, such as graphs, charts and illustrations, which longhand note takers easily record in notes.
  — Kenneth A. Kiewra, The Conversation, 3 Sep. 2019
• In addition, laptop note takers fail to note vital graphic information, such as graphs, charts, and illustrations, which longhand note takers easily record in notes.
  — Kenneth A. Kiewra, Quartz, 4 Sep. 2019

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