HANDWRITING in a Sentence

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32 example sentences for HANDWRITING, such as:

1. Her handwriting was clearly legible.
2. No one likes his illegible handwriting.
3. It was the handwriting of Anna Karenina.
4. His handwriting squiggled across the page.
5. I didn't recognize the handwriting on the envelope.

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 Meanings and Examples of HANDWRITING
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
handwriting
 n.  the activity of writing by hand; something written by hand
Classic Sentence: (21 in 2 pages)
1  I eagerly hope that you will confirm this intelligence soon in your own handwriting.
Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 6
2  This was all the preparation I received for that visit, or for others like it; Miss Havisham never wrote to me, nor had I ever so much as seen her handwriting.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In Chapter XXXVIII
3  Levin read in the queer, familiar handwriting: "I humbly beg you to leave me in peace."
Anna Karenina 1 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In PART 1: Chapter 8
4  Lidia Ivanovna had already begun to calm down, when the next morning a note was brought her, the handwriting of which she recognized with horror.
Anna Karenina 2 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In PART 5: Chapter 23
5  It was the handwriting of Anna Karenina.
Anna Karenina 2 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In PART 5: Chapter 23
6  I have a document here in his handwriting; it is between ourselves, for I scarce know what to do about it; it is an ugly business at the best.
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde By Robert Louis Stevenson
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER INCIDENT OF THE LETTER
7  To her, the handwriting itself, independent of anything it may convey, is a blessedness.
Mansfield Park By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXVII
8  The solitary exception was an empty envelope directed to her, and the handwriting was Wildeve's.
Return of the Native By Thomas Hardy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 5: 3 Eustacia Dresses Herself on a Black Morning
9  My suspicions were all confirmed by his peculiar action in typewriting his signature, which, of course, inferred that his handwriting was so familiar to her that she would recognise even the smallest sample of it.
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In III. A CASE OF IDENTITY
10  It is one of the papers in his own handwriting which he has bequeathed to us.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 7: CHAPTER IV—FORMS ASSUMED BY SUFFERING DURING SLEEP
11  Cosette drew from the envelope its contents, a little notebook of paper, each page of which was numbered and bore a few lines in a very fine and rather pretty handwriting, as Cosette thought.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 5: CHAPTER III—ENRICHED WITH COMMENTARIES BY TOUSSAINT
12  Such was the innocence of their love that Marius was not even acquainted with Cosette's handwriting.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 14: CHAPTER VII—GAVROCHE AS A PROFOUND CALCULATOR OF DISTANCE...
13  This was certainly the paper, the fashion of folding, the dull tint of ink; it was certainly the well-known handwriting, especially was it the same tobacco.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 9: CHAPTER IV—A BOTTLE OF INK WHICH ONLY SUCCEEDED IN WHITEN...
14  The old lady had recognized Ellen's handwriting and her fat little mouth was pursed in a frightened way, like a baby who fears a scolding and hopes to ward it off by tears.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER X
15  Mrs. Cutter had several times cut paragraphs about unfaithful husbands out of the newspapers and mailed them to Cutter in a disguised handwriting.
My Antonia By Willa Cather
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2. The Hired Girls: XI
Example Sentence:
1  She's the student whose handwriting is the best in my class.
2  The children were asked to choose their favourite poem and write it out in their best handwriting.
3  Her handwriting was clearly legible.
4  The handwriting expert attested to the genuineness of the signature.
5  A handwriting expert witnessed to the authenticity of the letter.
6  His handwriting squiggled across the page.
7  I didn't recognize the handwriting on the envelope.
8  This technology enables computers to read handwriting.
9  No one likes his illegible handwriting.
10  Tolkien (a more talented draughtsman than most of his imitators) provided the beautiful hand-inked maps that folded out of the original three hardback volumes of The Lord of the Rings, inscribed in his own strange, archaic handwriting.
11  The handwritings of most languages slant to the right.