How to Use longhand in a Sentence

longhand

noun
  • She wrote the book in longhand.
  • Turkle doesn’t scribble these theories out longhand in a house off the grid.
    — Corinne Purtill, The New Yorker, 23 Mar. 2021
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • Unplug for the afternoon and write some good, old-fashioned longhand letters.
    — Lizz Schumer, Good Housekeeping, 7 Oct. 2022
  • Put to task by Aboriginal elders, her job was to take down their every word in longhand.
    — Natasha Frost, New York Times, 4 Feb. 2024
  • The authors, both of whom favor writing in longhand, spent a year passing handwritten drafts back and forth.
    — Tessa Berenson, Time, 4 June 2018
  • Ivanov and her assistants work in longhand, writing down every diagnosis in the sick bay.
    — Smith Henderson, Popular Mechanics, 20 Nov. 2017
  • 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
  • These used to be written longhand by the Vice-Chamberlain of the Household, the no.
    — Kayleigh Roberts, Marie Claire, 25 Aug. 2019
  • Instead, they’re told to tell their supervisor verbally what happened or write it longhand.
    — Jason Dearen, sun-sentinel.com, 19 Nov. 2021
  • Palmer wrote letters, cursive and in longhand, to virtually everyone who wrote him.
    — Mark Whicker, Orange County Register, 6 Apr. 2017
  • Another team oversaw the registration of evacuees, writing their names in longhand in a ledger.
    — James Verini, New York Times, 1 Sep. 2022
  • Schumacher worked longhand, and filled tons of flip notebooks with his words before transferring them onto a typewriter.
    — Rachel Raposas, PEOPLE, 6 Jan. 2026
  • Those anecdotes were later stitched together, alongside journal entries and his own longhand writings.
    — Washington Post, 12 Apr. 2018
  • Like his eerie adult stories of revenge and comeuppance, his children’s books required many drafts, scribbled longhand on yellow legal pads.
    — Michael Dirda, Washington Post, 28 Dec. 2022
  • 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
  • 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
  • The manuscript fills three notebooks, 708 pages of meticulous longhand.
    — Literary Hub, 8 Aug. 2025
  • Very solid reporting by Brandon Keim Blind woman writing a novel longhand didn't know her pen had run out.
    — Ed Yong, Discover Magazine, 14 Apr. 2012
  • 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
  • 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 Czech literary titan was famous for preferring to write longhand, even after the explosion of the typewriter.
    — Sam Bodrojan, IndieWire, 5 Sep. 2025
  • 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
  • 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
  • Laptop notes are more verbatim than longhand notes, and verbatim note taking has been associated with shallow, non-meaningful learning.
    — Kenneth A. Kiewra, The Conversation, 3 Sep. 2019
  • Laptop notes are more verbatim than longhand notes, and verbatim note taking has been associated with shallow, non-meaningful learning.
    — Kenneth A. Kiewra, Quartz, 4 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, The Conversation, 3 Sep. 2019

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