How to Use penmanship in a Sentence

penmanship

noun
  • My third grade teacher thought it was important for us to learn penmanship.
  • But while in his penmanship, the recipe still has her hands all over it.
    — Betsy Cribb Watson, Southern Living, 2 Jan. 2025
  • But at the same time, sometimes your penmanship can fail you.
    — Brendan O'Meara, Longreads, 10 May 2022
  • Then there's this guy who has mad Lord of the Rings penmanship skills.
    — Noelle Devoe, Seventeen, 14 Apr. 2015
  • Ideal for toddlers and up (with a little penmanship help from an adult).
    — Jill Gleeson, Country Living, 23 Apr. 2023
  • In penmanship reflecting their ages, from tween to teen, each girl thanked me for the postcards.
    — Joan Donaldson, The Christian Science Monitor, 28 June 2021
  • Once again, there was no clear winner, but everyone agreed that penmanship counts.
    — Deb Amlen, New York Times, 26 Mar. 2018
  • Your child can simply hold it up without much effort or need for fancy penmanship.
    — Ysolt Usigan, Woman's Day, 14 July 2022
  • The book appears to have all of its original pages, which are covered with tidy penmanship.
    — Sarah Kuta, Smithsonian Magazine, 4 Feb. 2025
  • The phonograph didn’t suffer from poor penmanship.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 6 Jan. 2026
  • White showed off a room of 4-year-olds who were practicing their penmanship by writing the date on dry erase boards.
    — Lauren Lumpkin, Washington Post, 29 Oct. 2022
  • Bach’s lines with a touch that feels like exquisite, if singular, penmanship.
    — Washington Post, 13 May 2021
  • The columns were neatly ordered on loose sheets of paper, the penmanship crisp and careful.
    — Jonathan Blitzer, The New Yorker, 5 May 2021
  • At first, insurance, banking and finance sectors led the need for skilled clerks with good penmanship.
    — Nicole Kay Peterson, The Conversation, 15 Oct. 2020
  • At first, insurance, banking, and finance sectors led the need for skilled clerks with good penmanship.
    — Nicole Kay Peterson, Quartz at Work, 23 Oct. 2020
  • Looking at them is sort of like rifling through the diary of someone with really poor penmanship.
    — Christopher Knight, Los Angeles Times, 27 June 2024
  • Another shows a book review of sorts, written on lined paper in penmanship that appears to be a child’s.
    — Sydney Page, Washington Post, 3 Aug. 2022
  • Closer to penmanship than painting, this narrow concept of the medium seemed to have petered out a while ago.
    — Roberta Smith, New York Times, 31 May 2018
  • Plus, toying with sensory squishies, mushies, and gooshies can build cognitive skills and may even help kids with their penmanship.
    — Jamie Kiffel-Alcheh, National Geographic, 15 Oct. 2020
  • Internet users praised his penmanship and noted the image of his hands also showed a near-perfect score on an exam.
    — Javier C. HernÁndez, New York Times, 13 Jan. 2018
  • The art of penmanship intrigued many scribes in early America.
    — Charlene Paparizos, cleveland.com, 19 Apr. 2018
  • My Catholic school penmanship, drilled into me by the nuns, was actually paying off.
    — Philly.com, 31 Oct. 2017
  • With honest penmanship, the song tells the story of a person who’s silently in love with someone else and dying on the inside.
    — Ingrid Fajardo, Billboard, 6 May 2022
  • Jeopardy fans are not pleased with what has been called inconsistent rules pertaining to penmanship and spelling on the show.
    — Jessica Wang, EW.com, 20 July 2022
  • In the practiced penmanship of the era, the names Spahn, Aaron, Torre and Mathews jumped out.
    — Los Angeles Times, 21 Dec. 2021
  • This one, still with the signature LA penmanship on the chest, was inspired by her boys and offers options for kids.
    — Victoria Uwumarogie, Essence, 9 June 2022
  • The contents of the note were great, and still, baseball fans could not stop admiring Arrieta’s penmanship.
    — Andrew Joseph, For The Win, 13 Mar. 2018
  • Most of these are from the Revolutionary War-era, known for looped and flowing penmanship.
    — Laura Baisas, Popular Science, 17 Jan. 2025
  • Hoye, 61, has long worked closely with Kast, whose scorebook is the official record and whose penmanship is precise.
    — Scott Cacciola, New York Times, 8 Jan. 2021
  • Its words quote a postcard sent from a Black soldier during World War I and even replicate his penmanship.
    — Julie Belcove, Robb Report, 23 July 2022

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