How to Use handwriting in a Sentence

handwriting

noun
  • Her handwriting is nearly impossible to read.
  • Well, a piece of his handwriting, at any rate.
    — Sean Keeler, Denver Post, 16 Aug. 2025
  • Doesn’t his handwriting seem kind of shaky?
    — Rafaela Bassili, Vulture, 13 Nov. 2025
  • Looking for a fun way to help kids flex their handwriting skills?
    — Sian Babish, chicagotribune.com, 4 Aug. 2020
  • And that was my own handwriting on the cards, thank you for noticing.
    — Eliza Thompson, Harper's BAZAAR, 4 Apr. 2017
  • 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
  • Pages and pages filled with Katharine’s small, neat handwriting.
    — Natalia Sánchez Loayza, Scientific American, 29 Jan. 2026
  • The handwriting was being written on the wall that many years ago.
    — John Schandelmeier, Anchorage Daily News, 21 May 2022
  • Perhaps, as all the handwriting on the wall seems to suggest, this will be the end.
    — Ryan Kartje, Orange County Register, 13 June 2017
  • Their two handwritings are very similar, which is bizarre and sweet at the same time.
    — Brigit Katz, Smithsonian, 26 Feb. 2018
  • There was a lot of handwriting analysis, and even a birth-records search.
    — Claire Landsbaum, The Cut, 28 July 2017
  • Hunter Renfroe has been around long enough to be able to read the handwriting on the wall.
    — Todd Rosiak, Journal Sentinel, 24 Nov. 2022
  • 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
  • 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 notebook lays flat on your desk and has a square-grid pattern to keep your handwriting in check.
    — The Editors, Outside Online, 24 Apr. 2018
  • The sight of that distinctive handwriting on a note left on a night table.
    — Bob Greene, WSJ, 18 Apr. 2021
  • The debate around the importance of handwriting was put to rest a while back.
    — Phil Wahba, Fortune, 18 June 2024
  • His lawyers, though, have said the girl made her own choice — pointing to two suicide notes in her handwriting.
    — Washington Post, 18 Oct. 2017
  • The handwriting in the logbook also matched the neat script on the message.
    — Brigit Katz, Smithsonian, 8 Mar. 2018
  • Booker inked the words in Bryant’s handwriting on the inside of his arm.
    — Iliana Limón Romero, Los Angeles Times, 4 June 2021
  • Some of the reports were even written in the boys’ own awkward handwriting.
    — Petula Dvorak, Washington Post, 24 May 2018
  • 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
  • But my handwriting is terrible, so if anyone tried to read them, there's not a chance.
    — Eileen Finan, PEOPLE, 29 May 2026
  • The poster also sees some of his handwriting of Face‘s lyrics featured on the record.
    — Tomás Mier, Rolling Stone, 10 Oct. 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
  • In the white space below the image, their names are marked down in pink ink with his sister’s handwriting.
    — Larisha Paul, Rolling Stone, 31 Mar. 2025
  • Script is finding new life in after-school clubs where students can learn to loop and swoosh their handwriting.
    — Karina Elwood, Washington Post, 3 Jan. 2026
  • 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
  • There remained his oil paintings and the many books marked by his handwriting in the margins—now mere traces of him.
    — Literary Hub, 12 May 2026

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