How to Use calligraphy in a Sentence

calligraphy

noun
  • Those were made for calligraphy so a lot of art stores had them.
    — Jonathan Rowe, SPIN, 31 Oct. 2023
  • Some things are pleasing when seen; calligraphy is such a thing.
    — Mike Kerrigan, WSJ, 29 July 2022
  • Gothic calligraphy is a strange script that today is very hard to read.
    — Emily Watlington, ARTnews.com, 20 May 2026
  • On the front of the card, write your guest's name in calligraphy, and paste the cluster of yarrow next to it.
    — Southern Living Editors, Southern Living, 4 Sep. 2023
  • Threads fly and snag over the grid of hankies, and become their own calligraphy.
    — Cate McQuaid, BostonGlobe.com, 25 Apr. 2023
  • The curves, the shape, the way a calligraphy pen moves—all of that inspired these brushes.
    — Celia Shatzman, Forbes.com, 2 Apr. 2025
  • The slogans on the city walls, the store signs — all calligraphy, aged and faded.
    — Mujib Mashal Atul Loke, New York Times, 1 May 2024
  • Entry comes with a tug on the giant calligraphy brush that adorns the doorway.
    — Melinda Sheckells, Forbes.com, 20 May 2026
  • There was Mao in a heavy winter coat, writing calligraphy by lantern light.
    — Howard W. French, The New York Review of Books, 25 Feb. 2020
  • Crochet pieces, which look like calligraphy scrawled across the body, feel a bit harder in contrast.
    — Laird Borrelli-Persson, Vogue, 4 Oct. 2022
  • And the amenities run the gamut from calligraphy lessons to breakfast with giraffes.
    — Time, 16 Feb. 2018
  • In an airy hanok, the artist Dobong taught us how to write our names using Hangul calligraphy.
    — Jesse Ashlock, Condé Nast Traveler, 30 Aug. 2023
  • An impromptu calligraphy lesson taught me a lot about beauty in this world and the one to come.
    — Mike Kerrigan, WSJ, 29 July 2022
  • Everyone is searching through place cards and trying to make out their own name in calligraphy.
    — Chris Hachey, BGR, 5 Mar. 2021
  • Chyna got her oldest child’s name on her left-hand while on her right-hand was her little girl’s name in the same calligraphy.
    — Karen Mizoguchi, PEOPLE.com, 16 Dec. 2017
  • Here, the use of classic calligraphy oozes a vintage vibe while the soft blue color hints at an oceanside venue.
    — Dobrina Zhekova, Sunset, 22 Jan. 2018
  • Elders get their hearing checked and play mahjongg and practice calligraphy in the shade of empty plazas.
    — Xuan Juliana Wang, Los Angeles Times, 12 Mar. 2026
  • One is covered in thick sweeps of black Chinese calligraphy from shoulder to wrist.
    — The Economist, 29 Aug. 2020
  • It's framed by a series of shapes that evoke calligraphy but aren't actual letters.
    — Holly Ramer, Star Tribune, 12 May 2021
  • It’s framed by a series of shapes that evoke calligraphy but aren’t actual letters.
    — Holly Ramer, The Christian Science Monitor, 14 May 2021
  • Learning cursive during the day, and coming home to practice calligraphy at night with my dad.
    — Jeanine Celeste Pang, Vogue, 5 May 2021
  • Yet not all of the artists are calligraphers, and not all of the calligraphy is Chinese.
    — Mark Jenkins, Washington Post, 12 July 2019
  • The calligraphy class over the business module.
    — Alexander Foster, Forbes.com, 18 May 2026
  • In New York, the idea of plushy seats with calligraphy place cards and plastic on the catwalk seems to be fading.
    — Brooke Bobb, Vogue, 12 July 2017
  • There are so many cool ways to decorate your bullet journal, from using brush pens and calligraphy to fun stamps and printouts.
    — Noelle Devoe, Seventeen, 24 Jan. 2018
  • My brother Lewis did all the handwritten calligraphy signage for the name places.
    — Emily Strohm, Peoplemag, 29 Mar. 2023
  • There will be activities for kids and a calligraphy station.
    — Abby Hamblin, San Diego Union-Tribune, 5 Feb. 2026
  • Also, choose fonts wisely; hard-to-read script that hearkens to the faux calligraphy trend are not the best when trying to get your message across.
    — Carrie Goldberg, Harper's BAZAAR, 18 Jan. 2018
  • Nest by Zen monk Ikkyū Sōjun, is inscribed with kanji, or old calligraphy.
    — Antonia Mufarech, Smithsonian Magazine, 5 May 2022
  • In the gift shops, there are no images of Cixi, just a few pieces of pink silk emblazoned with her calligraphy, sold as wall hangings.
    — New York Times, 10 July 2018

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