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lettering

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verb

present participle of letter

Example Sentences

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Recent Examples of lettering
Noun
In its glorious days, Technicolor was billed in the opening credits, often celebrated with its own title card, and spotlit in posters and lobby cards in splashy red-blue-yellow lettering. Thomas Doherty, The Hollywood Reporter, 11 Mar. 2025 The title dominates the artwork in fluffy, pastel yellow lettering. Hannah Dailey, Billboard, 26 Feb. 2025 For example, given an image of a clock next to some lettering, the tasks might be to determine the letters in the image or, given an image of a baseball player in the act of throwing, the question might be what object is being thrown. The Physics Arxiv Blog, Discover Magazine, 26 Feb. 2025 The relaunch also came with a new look: the Archetypes artwork featured the same photo of Meghan but with pink lettering replacing the previous green and the addition of the Lemonada logo. Stephanie Petit, People.com, 3 Mar. 2025 See All Example Sentences for lettering
Recent Examples of Synonyms for lettering
Noun
  • Meghan wrote to Hirsh in her signature calligraphy, showing off the skill she's honed since working as a calligrapher while an auditioning actor.
    Janine Henni, People.com, 20 Mar. 2025
  • Her grandmother taught tea ceremonies, and her grandfather taught calligraphy.
    Jessica Gelt, Los Angeles Times, 10 Mar. 2025
Noun
  • Luscombe suggests retaining all those envelopes with your mother’s handwriting.
    Liz Weston, San Diego Union-Tribune, 16 Mar. 2025
  • The handwriting on the card and the envelope seemed to be from two different people, which the OP found strange.
    Josh Hammer, Newsweek, 17 Feb. 2025
Noun
  • But as the stories were translated into English, the value of such manuscripts fell.
    Alan Yuhas, New York Times, 28 Mar. 2025
  • Since roughly 75,000 of the 10 million medieval manuscripts have survived to modern times, the researchers posit that around 8,000 manuscripts copied by women are still in existence.
    Sarah Kuta, Smithsonian Magazine, 24 Mar. 2025
Verb
  • Peter Ferry was passionately an author and teacher, inspiring decades of students in his English and writing classes at Lake Forest High School, a youthful crowd of many thousands that included such later famous people as actor Vince Vaughn and author Dave Eggers.
    Rick Kogan, Chicago Tribune, 24 Dec. 2024
  • Dani Di Placido has been writing about film, television, and internet culture for Forbes for 8 years.
    Dani Di Placido, Forbes, 24 Dec. 2024
Noun
  • Who doesn’t dream of making beeswax candles, topping naked cakes with berries and writing on labels with picture-perfect penmanship?
    Matt Brennan, Los Angeles Times, 7 Mar. 2025
  • The book appears to have all of its original pages, which are covered with tidy penmanship.
    Sarah Kuta, Smithsonian Magazine, 4 Feb. 2025
Noun
  • But Johnson initially spent a lot of time working with another actor — one whose discussions with the director ended up dramatically influencing the shape of the script.
    Jim Hemphill, IndieWire, 20 Mar. 2025
  • As Deadline first reported, the original cast that includes Robert De Niro, Ben Stiller, Teri Polo and Blythe Danner are returning to star, with Hamburg, who had co-written the three other Meet the Parents movies, penning this script as well.
    Justin Kroll, Deadline, 20 Mar. 2025

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“Lettering.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/lettering. Accessed 3 Apr. 2025.

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