How to Use hieroglyph in a Sentence

hieroglyph

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  • 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
  • Its hieroglyphs also note that the cup was used for chocolate.
    — Joshua Rapp Learn, Discover Magazine, 26 May 2023
  • It’s one hieroglyph, and it’s all over that beautiful, 15-by-10-foot wide jaw.
    — Vulture, 16 Nov. 2022
  • Champollion had cracked the code, becoming the first man in 2,000 years to read hieroglyphs.
    — Smithsonian, 19 Apr. 2017
  • 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
  • Emojis are the hieroglyphs of the future, heralding a new era beyond the alphabet.
    — Miles Klee, Rolling Stone, 8 Apr. 2024
  • 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
  • The scientists looked at physical evidence to test the hieroglyph's claims of the city having been burned.
    — Fox News, 5 Aug. 2019
  • 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
  • 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
  • But the hieroglyphs were an incredibly difficult thing to crack.
    — National Geographic, 20 Nov. 2016
  • Emojis might be connected in some respects to Egyptian hieroglyphs or Chinese ideograms.
    — Crispin Sartwell, WSJ, 22 Sep. 2017
  • Screaming in hieroglyphs, tearing space open, barfing lava and pissing neon.
    — Jonathan Rowe, SPIN, 23 Jan. 2024
  • Origins will chronicle the journey of Catherine Langford, a woman whose obsession with alien hieroglyphs kicked off the events of the original series.
    — Eliana Dockterman, Time, 29 Sep. 2016
  • 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
  • These symbols, really hieroglyphs, appeared on posts and bridge abutments, on fences and outbuildings.
    — Roy Berendsohn, Popular Mechanics, 24 Aug. 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
  • 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
  • Leopards appear as hieroglyphs and statues in many Egyptian artworks.
    — Katherine J. Wu, Smithsonian Magazine, 3 Mar. 2020
  • 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
  • Somebody told me an interesting thing: that the question mark is basically a hieroglyph.
    — David Marchesephoto Illustration By Bráulio Amado, New York Times, 4 Feb. 2022
  • The 27th square of this particular board shows a hieroglyph for water, where traditionally, the 27th square would typically show an X.
    — Daisy Hernandez, Popular Mechanics, 11 Feb. 2020
  • In the first century, hieroglyphs were a mystery and were left untouched by early Christians even when stripping old gods of power, as seen here in examples of kneeling temple statuary.
    — Edward Rothstein, WSJ, 17 June 2019
  • Olsson added, his various tattoos including Viking hieroglyphs, squares, and a lion, visible beneath a black Calvin Klein T-shirt.
    — Emilia Petrarca, The Cut, 20 Dec. 2017
  • Archaeologists have also found Egyptian hieroglyphs carved into the tomb of Pharaoh Seth-Peribsen that date to around the same historical period.
    — Lucy Tu, Scientific American, 24 Aug. 2023
  • The advertisements alone are like hieroglyphs: endless full pages selling elephantine audio equipment, brands of beer, cigarettes, fountain pens.
    — Josephine Livingstone, New Republic, 29 Sep. 2017
  • One of the most famous archaeological finds in history, the stone slab allowed scholars to decipher hieroglyphs for the first time, presenting the same statement in hieroglyphic script, Demotic and ancient Greek.
    — Kate McMahon, Smithsonian Magazine, 3 Apr. 2024
  • Once you're done tracing, Fabricus gives you a percentage score that shows you how confident the machine learning algorithm is that your symbol matches a corresponding hieroglyph in its training data.
    — Courtney Linder, Popular Mechanics, 24 July 2020
  • The etchings, comparable to Egyptian hieroglyphs, have been subject to various interpretations over the past centuries.
    — Brendan Rascius, Miami Herald, 8 May 2024

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