How to Use cursive in a Sentence

cursive

1 of 2 adjective
Definition of cursivenext
Synonyms for cursivenext
  • The man who drove the tow truck had a patch on his shirt that said gene in cursive letters.
    — Kate Dicamillo, Harper's Magazine, 9 June 2023
  • The bill would not require cursive be taught in schools.
    — Jessie Balmert, Cincinnati.com, 20 June 2018
  • Most of the recipes were written in cursive on index cards.
    — Anh-Minh Le, SFChronicle.com, 12 June 2020
  • The cursive grungy font straightened and bolded with a tilt.
    — Marcus Thompson Ii, The Mercury News, 21 Apr. 2017
  • The Palmer Method sends graceful cursive gazelles loping across the page.
    — Murr Brewster, The Christian Science Monitor, 16 Aug. 2022
  • The numbers and cursive 'Indiana' on the front will have the look of limestone.
    — Scott Horner, Indianapolis Star, 24 Aug. 2017
  • Its symbol is a cursive M with a loop attached to its right side.
    — Gabi Thorne, Allure, 2 Feb. 2022
  • In neat, cursive script, there were 700 tattooed names and ages of some of those killed in the coup’s aftermath.
    — Sui-Lee Wee, New York Times, 8 Sep. 2023
  • Some members raised concerns about kids who couldn't read cursive or sign their name in the script.
    — Arika Herron, Indianapolis Star, 4 Jan. 2018
  • The third tier was covered in gold sparkles and displayed Turner's first name in a gold cursive cutout.
    — Abigail Adams, PEOPLE.com, 23 Feb. 2022
  • That's what their brochure said, their posters, their website, the sentence scrolling across the screen in stately cursive.
    — Seija Rankin, EW.com, 2 Nov. 2020
  • The design features the date June 15 written in cursive script.
    — Erin Clack, Peoplemag, 16 Dec. 2023
  • The design featured the date June 15 written in cursive script.
    — Esther Kang, Peoplemag, 29 Dec. 2023
  • This 5x11-inch bamboo wood serving board is engraved with mom's name and the date in a cursive font.
    — Emily Vanschmus, Better Homes & Gardens, 15 Apr. 2022
  • This 5x11-inch bamboo wood serving board is engraved with mom’s name and the date in a cursive font.
    — Cheyann Neades, Better Homes & Gardens, 7 Apr. 2021
  • Here, a 14k gold necklace in a timeless cursive font that brings to mind Regina George's in Mean Girls.
    — Jaimie Potters, Men's Health, 16 Nov. 2022
  • In one portrait, a woman grins in bliss as a breeze tousles her cursive curls.
    — Stephen Humphries, The Christian Science Monitor, 17 June 2021
  • Per the statement, the pieces are written in a hieratic, or cursive, script and date back to 300 B.C.
    — Isis Davis-Marks, Smithsonian Magazine, 20 July 2021
  • In bringing my own kids to sit on his lap, Santa offered me a new kind of joy: their lists are now in cursive!
    — CBS News, 18 Dec. 2022
  • Vegetables glisten on their plates; drinks are chilled with cubes of ice etched with a cursive P.
    — Tom Sietsema, Washington Post, 20 Oct. 2023
  • Blair wore a nude bodysuit adorned with cursive writings and a merlot fur stole draped across her body.
    — Lauren Alexis Fisher, Harper's BAZAAR, 10 Feb. 2018
  • Its symbol is a cursive M that extends into a small arrow at the tip.
    — Gabi Thorne, Allure, 2 Feb. 2022
  • Rubs his head, displaying the William Blake cursive tattoo on his arm.
    — Chris Ballard, SI.com, 2 Oct. 2019
  • In cursive lettering, the sign simply reads: Church of Peace and Quiet.
    — Sarah Bahari, Dallas News, 22 June 2023
  • My tattoo artist, Gusti, who has been with Ephemeral since the studio opened almost a year ago, stamps the cursive French down my arm.
    — Megan Decker, refinery29.com, 23 Feb. 2022
  • Rather than the cursive E formation, type 5 curls are similar to a Z shape.
    — The Salt Lake Tribune, 26 May 2022
  • The gallery walls were festooned with neon cursive signs, each of them slang for female genitalia.
    — Dana Goodyear, The New Yorker, 8 Mar. 2017
  • There's the case of the similar cursive fonts, Not to mention the fact that the Them cast includes an actress from that scary movie about the tethers that walk among us.
    — Shannon Carlin, refinery29.com, 9 Apr. 2021
  • In blue ballpoint pen, in Lou Reed’s cursive handwriting, was the address, to and from his parents’ house.
    — Sarah Larson, The New Yorker, 2 Mar. 2017
  • Nor when freeway modernization stranded the Silver Crest amid a cursive tangle of off-ramps, gas stations and drive-throughs.
    — Frank Shyong, Los Angeles Times, 23 Dec. 2023
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cursive

2 of 2 noun
  • He writes in cursive when he takes notes.
  • Kilpatrick wrote in cursive at the top of the Aug. 4 letter.
    — Tresa Baldas, Detroit Free Press, 7 Sep. 2017
  • The Cranks Bible read the title in vibrant cursive script.
    — Julia Tausch, Bon Appetit, 13 June 2018
  • The first names of each of the victims were written in neat cursive across the bottom of each image.
    — Irfan Khan, latimes.com, 24 Mar. 2018
  • Polemicists lament that cursive is going the way of the dodo.
    — Jennifer Schuessler, New York Times, 12 July 2018
  • On his right, there’s a little heart, his name written in cursive next to Annabell’s.
    — Cayla Harris, San Antonio Express-News, 24 May 2023
  • White’s handwriting was faint and cramped, but on the back of the form Kitchen had rewritten some of his answers in cursive.
    — The New Yorker, 17 Jan. 2022
  • In the music video, it's seen after the second verse, written in cursive on a neon sign in the background.
    — Glamour, 25 May 2019
  • On her right wrist, the mom of two has each of her children's names tattooed in cursive with their date of birth below it.
    — Angela Andaloro, Peoplemag, 23 Oct. 2023
  • Part of the house number now is handwritten in cursive.
    — Christina Hall, Detroit Free Press, 10 Aug. 2017
  • Some names are written with pen in cursive, right onto the record label.
    — Matt Wake | Mwake@al.com, al, 23 Oct. 2019
  • In the May 11 edition, Randy Blaser's column about the importance of cursive writing struck a chord with me.
    — chicagotribune.com, 23 May 2017
  • Center Bam Adebayo said what has been done has been done, in terms of losses that have put the Heat behind the cursive in the playoff race.
    — Ira Winderman, Sun Sentinel, 8 Mar. 2023
  • To me, learning cursive is like learning to pedal a bike or glide into turns on skis.
    — Sue Wunder, The Christian Science Monitor, 7 Feb. 2023
  • Her name, in her high schooler’s cursive, is still carved into a closet.
    — Marina Magloire, Harper's BAZAAR, 6 May 2021
  • At the same time, the struggle for cursive became part of a growing, politicized nostalgia for a lost past.
    — Drew Gilpin Faust, The Atlantic, 16 Sep. 2022
  • Her name was written in cursive script at the bottom, following by her dates.
    — Chloe Foussianes, Town & Country, 18 Apr. 2019
  • Mostly hidden on the inside of her right arm, the tiny piece is a word in cursive that was too small for most people to decipher.
    — Evelyn Wang, Teen Vogue, 12 Oct. 2018
  • The backlash to that decision prompted a number of states to bring back cursive in recent years.
    — Caitlin O'Kane, CBS News, 8 May 2018
  • But there was the signature of the firm’s chairman, David Boies, in blue-inked cursive, on a contract to kill the paper’s own reporting.
    — Ronan Farrow, The New Yorker, 9 Oct. 2019
  • My grandma would keep score with a notepad and neat cursive, listing each of seven rounds, our scores and a star when someone got a joker.
    — Laura Johnston, cleveland, 21 Nov. 2020
  • The yellowed, fragile pages were covered in impeccable cursive — and the language of the day.
    — Mike Newall, Philly.com, 22 June 2018
  • The menu is still written in her handwriting, thanks to technology that made a font out of her cursive.
    — Brett Anderson, New York Times, 24 Dec. 2019
  • Years later, Carter’s granddaughter was able to read the note written by her father and write a note — in cursive — to Carter herself.
    — Arpan Lobo, Detroit Free Press, 27 Mar. 2023
  • All Rockne's letters to Schreiner were typewritten with his name signed in cursive.
    — Dana Hunsinger Benbow, The Indianapolis Star, 23 Sep. 2020
  • One was my grandmother’s little Adler, a Tippa 7 that typed in cursive.
    — Ann Patchett, The New Yorker, 1 Mar. 2021
  • And indeed, in 2010, the Common Core standards stopped requiring the teaching of cursive in public schools.
    — Melissa Breyer, Treehugger, 8 June 2023
  • Not long after, a case of pinot noir arrived, with a note of congratulations in neat cursive.
    — Chris Ballard, Los Angeles Times, 25 Mar. 2021
  • In California, students between first and sixth grade will learn to write in cursive under a new state law.
    — Howard Blume, Los Angeles Times, 22 Dec. 2023
  • Not only wines in weighty bottles whose labels are printed in cursive and whose necks are stuffed with a tree cork, but also wines in a cold sheath of aluminum.
    — Esther Mobley, San Francisco Chronicle, 24 Jan. 2018

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