How to Use glyph in a Sentence

glyph

noun
  • The bold crimson frames smaller areas where black glyphs dance on white.
    — Mark Jenkins, Washington Post, 25 Oct. 2019
  • Aha, does this mean there’ll be glyphs in the Nothing Phone (2)?
    — David Phelan, Forbes, 17 Mar. 2023
  • His eyes are wise and ancient, like cryptic glyphs carved into a rock of cold mountain.
    — Jeff Weiss, Spin, 21 Aug. 2023
  • In the conference room, his trademark glyph was etched into a long glass table.
    — Dan Piepenbring, The New Yorker, 2 Sep. 2019
  • 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
  • The other big menu bar-wide change in Tahoe is that many menu items get their own little glyphs now to go along with the text.
    — ArsTechnica, 15 Sep. 2025
  • Finding the new glyph proved difficult even with Watson’s help.
    — Jason Daley, Smithsonian, 11 Dec. 2014
  • The planets will be shown in each house via glyphs, which are astrological symbols.
    — Lisa Stardust, Peoplemag, 12 Apr. 2024
  • When placed on top of a layered earth glyph, this symbol signifies moving ground—aka, an earthquake.
    — National Geographic, 11 Oct. 2019
  • Formerly Known as Prince has dumped the stupid glyph and gone back to being plain ol’ Prince.
    — Wired Staff, WIRED, 17 May 2000
  • The metates also display many puzzling pseudo-glyphs on them that have yet to be studied and deciphered.
    — National Geographic, 9 Feb. 2016
  • The one potentially useful feature is the ability to use the glyph lights as a fill light in the camera app.
    — Ron Amadeo, Ars Technica, 14 July 2023
  • 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
  • On the back is an engraving of the sign's universal glyph, housed by its elemental symbol.
    — Joseph Deacetis, Forbes, 7 Dec. 2021
  • 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
  • Your glyph on a colored background is about to get some serious visual competition.
    — Adam Lashinsky, Fortune, 6 July 2020
  • The shell glyph also appears to have been used to indicate the concept of nothing more generally.
    — Nathaniel Scharping, Discover Magazine, 9 Jan. 2021
  • 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
  • Geometric polygons are another group of glyphs that include trapezoids and other shapes.
    — Carly Miller, Forbes, 29 Sep. 2024
  • 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
  • This notion is bolstered by the fact that rongorongo glyphs bear no resemblance to European letters.
    — Sonja Anderson, Smithsonian Magazine, 15 Feb. 2024
  • There were other glyphs describing a breathing mountain in a watery world and a cormorant bird surrounding this mythical city.
    — Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 22 Nov. 2023
  • Some of these codices include a glyph that resembles a propeller-like object which has long been understood to represent movement.
    — National Geographic, 11 Oct. 2019
  • This climate preserves the rocky, three-dimensional glyphs that decorate the pebbly landscape.
    — Carly Miller, Forbes, 29 Sep. 2024
  • But the rest of the glyph’s anatomy was more mysterious, reports Hannah Osborne for Newsweek.
    — Katherine J. Wu, Smithsonian Magazine, 19 Mar. 2020
  • 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
  • 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
  • The Pisces glyph is two fish swimming in opposite directions, an expansion on the Gemini symbol.
    — Aliza Kelly Faragher, Allure, 29 May 2018
  • For crucially, the glyphs, the rectangular tubes, and the high-gloss cylinders contain not the slightest visible trace of their fabrication.
    — Gordon Hughes, Artforum, 1 Mar. 2026
  • 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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