How to Use hieroglyph in a Sentence

hieroglyph

noun
  • Its hieroglyphs also note that the cup was used for chocolate.
    — Joshua Rapp Learn, Discover Magazine, 26 May 2023
  • In fact, the Egyptian word for mother was written with the vulture hieroglyph.
    — Ian Rose, JSTOR Daily, 10 Apr. 2024
  • Emojis are the hieroglyphs of the future, heralding a new era beyond the alphabet.
    — Miles Klee, Rolling Stone, 8 Apr. 2024
  • Screaming in hieroglyphs, tearing space open, barfing lava and pissing neon.
    — Jonathan Rowe, SPIN, 23 Jan. 2024
  • But the hieroglyphs around the center of the stone, including the date it would have been used, are difficult to decipher.
    — Joe Snell, Washington Post, 14 Apr. 2023
  • But the hieroglyphs were an incredibly difficult thing to crack.
    — National Geographic, 20 Nov. 2016
  • The scientists looked at physical evidence to test the hieroglyph's claims of the city having been burned.
    — Fox News, 5 Aug. 2019
  • Traces of hieroglyphs above the figure’s head use female pronouns, which also helped the confirm that the image was a female pharaoh.
    — Jason Daley, Smithsonian, 26 Mar. 2018
  • Champollion had cracked the code, becoming the first man in 2,000 years to read hieroglyphs.
    — Smithsonian, 19 Apr. 2017
  • Leopards appear as hieroglyphs and statues in many Egyptian artworks.
    — Katherine J. Wu, Smithsonian Magazine, 3 Mar. 2020
  • These symbols, really hieroglyphs, appeared on posts and bridge abutments, on fences and outbuildings.
    — Roy Berendsohn, Popular Mechanics, 24 Aug. 2023
  • Go for a stroll on the water line at night or early morning and hopefully tracks will present themselves, flipper marks and a solid line for the shell, like hieroglyphs.
    — Eric Barton, Sun Sentinel, 4 Jan. 2026
  • There’s a hieroglyph of what is supposed to be a young Ganondorf in Breath of the Wild, which shows both long hair and what might be a green tunic.
    — Paul Tassi, Forbes, 19 June 2021
  • The first sliver of light in the east revealed their movable aviary, a box of netted scaffolding the size of a barn, with a few dozen birds perched in silhouette, like hieroglyphs.
    — Nick Paumgarten, The New Yorker, 10 Feb. 2025
  • In addition to the information which can be learned by translating the hieroglyphs, there is much to be learned from the way that people are depicted.
    — Rachel Elspeth Gross, Forbes, 9 Sep. 2024
  • Half the seats on the flight seemed to be occupied by fellow-Deadheads, identifiable, as ever, by the hieroglyphs.
    — Nick Paumgarten, The New Yorker, 22 July 2024
  • Nesyamun was mummified and entombed in a coffin inscribed with hieroglyphs, mainly texts from the Book of the Dead.
    — Ben Guarino, Anchorage Daily News, 24 Jan. 2020
  • Pieces of papyrus or stone, with hieroglyphs sometimes incomplete, were recreated as a precious trio of clips, each with Fragment in their name.
    — Lily Templeton, Footwear News, 9 June 2026
  • Emojis might be connected in some respects to Egyptian hieroglyphs or Chinese ideograms.
    — Crispin Sartwell, WSJ, 22 Sep. 2017
  • Inside a chamber at the necropolis, diggers found a wooden box engraved with hieroglyphs containing four canopic jars filled with organs.
    — Linda Hervieux, Fox News, 11 May 2017
  • These were 50 feet high, six feet in diameter, painted with hieroglyphs and topped with gigantic papyrus blossoms.
    — John Kelly, Washington Post, 25 Feb. 2023
  • One comic artist tells a story through shadows behind the curtains of a window; another, with hieroglyphs the reader must decipher with the help of a legend.
    — Tim Brinkhof, JSTOR Daily, 9 Oct. 2024
  • Gradually, your new world will fill up with dancing silhouettes and animals, which all coalesce to form a main hieroglyph that will unlock a portal to space.
    — Michael Simon, PCWorld, 24 Apr. 2019
  • The Madrid Codex, which is full of elaborate artwork as well as Maya hieroglyphs, was actually split into two parts at some point.
    — Joshua Rapp Learn, Discover Magazine, 26 May 2023
  • The decipherment of Maya hieroglyphs has been developing since the last century and is an ongoing project.
    — Benjamin Lima, Dallas News, 2 June 2023
  • Instead, excerpts were written on the inside of the sarcophagus itself, surviving in the form of two rotting cedar panels etched with images and hieroglyphs.
    — Katherine J. Wu, Smithsonian Magazine, 1 Jan. 2020
  • Crucially, these dates correspond to important dynastic events that the hieroglyphs omit — filling in the puzzle pieces scholars had been missing.
    — Maria Mocerino, Interesting Engineering, 21 Sep. 2025
  • One of the most intriguing discoveries was a bronze sword engraved with the cartouche of Ramses, or hieroglyphs arranged in an oval representing his name.
    — Sonja Anderson, Smithsonian Magazine, 17 Sep. 2024
  • From Egyptian hieroglyphs to European folklore, these birds have been revered for their elegance and adaptability.
    — Scott Travers, Forbes, 18 Dec. 2024
  • The same message in hieroglyphs, Demotic and Greek allowed researchers to decode the images as language, but the new discovery is a bit different.
    — Irene Wright, Miami Herald, 10 Sep. 2025

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