How to Use calligraphy in a Sentence

calligraphy

noun

• On the front of the card, write your guest's name in calligraphy, and paste the cluster of yarrow next to it.
  — Southern Living Editors, Southern Living, 4 Sep. 2023
• Those were made for calligraphy so a lot of art stores had them.
  — Jonathan Rowe, SPIN, 31 Oct. 2023
• In an airy hanok, the artist Dobong taught us how to write our names using Hangul calligraphy.
  — Jesse Ashlock, Condé Nast Traveler, 30 Aug. 2023
• Threads fly and snag over the grid of hankies, and become their own calligraphy.
  — Cate McQuaid, BostonGlobe.com, 25 Apr. 2023
• Some things are pleasing when seen; calligraphy is such a thing.
  — Mike Kerrigan, WSJ, 29 July 2022
• An impromptu calligraphy lesson taught me a lot about beauty in this world and the one to come.
  — Mike Kerrigan, WSJ, 29 July 2022
• The Duchess of Cambridge is a skilled photographer, while the Duchess of Sussex is known to love calligraphy.
  — Caroline Hallemann, Town & Country, 24 Aug. 2020
• Crochet pieces, which look like calligraphy scrawled across the body, feel a bit harder in contrast.
  — Laird Borrelli-Persson, Vogue, 4 Oct. 2022
• Similarly, in shodo, the master will grind the inkstone to produce the ink for the calligraphy to be written.
  — Greg Story, Forbes, 7 Mar. 2022
• One is covered in thick sweeps of black Chinese calligraphy from shoulder to wrist.
  — The Economist, 29 Aug. 2020
• The star debuted the body ink on Snapchat in 2017, showcasing a tattoo of King Cairo's name on her left hand, as well as Dream's name in the same calligraphy on her right hand.
  — Vandana Pawa, Peoplemag, 8 Mar. 2023
• Here’s a liquid liner from Tom Ford that has a calligraphy tip on one end and a brush tip on the other for seamless standout eye looks.
  — Iman Balagam, Harper's BAZAAR, 20 Oct. 2022
• Of the 40 streets that Mr. Tan was asked to do calligraphy for, nearly half no longer have a single remaining bilingual sign.
  — New York Times, 11 Mar. 2022
• The thin line of dunes around the mountain’s base is an intervention of near perfect black, its slopes and crests like calligraphy in India ink.
  — The Economist, 16 Dec. 2020
• Worshippers are no longer allowed to touch the Kaaba, which is draped in black cloth adorned with Arabic calligraphy in gold.
  — NBC News, 4 Oct. 2020
• Nest by Zen monk Ikkyū Sōjun, is inscribed with kanji, or old calligraphy.
  — Antonia Mufarech, Smithsonian Magazine, 5 May 2022
• My brother Lewis did all the handwritten calligraphy signage for the name places.
  — Emily Strohm, Peoplemag, 29 Mar. 2023
• Everyone is searching through place cards and trying to make out their own name in calligraphy.
  — Chris Hachey, BGR, 5 Mar. 2021
• And the personal touch of artistic calligraphy can heighten the sense of the importance of any occasion and gift.
  — Marilisa Barbieri, Forbes, 24 Jan. 2023
• Learning cursive during the day, and coming home to practice calligraphy at night with my dad.
  — Jeanine Celeste Pang, Vogue, 5 May 2021
• It’s framed by a series of shapes that evoke calligraphy but aren’t actual letters.
  — Holly Ramer, The Christian Science Monitor, 14 May 2021
• It's framed by a series of shapes that evoke calligraphy but aren't actual letters.
  — Holly Ramer, Star Tribune, 12 May 2021
• Nearby, there was a short biography of Li and a display of his calligraphy.
  — Peter Hessler, The New Yorker, 26 June 2023
• For centuries, calligraphy brushes have been made by hand in Kumano, Japan.
  — New York Times, 11 May 2021
• White columns scratched black with bear-claw calligraphy.
  — Leath Tonino, Outside Online, 19 Nov. 2020
• His calligraphy was painstaking and perfect, much like the Egyptian scribes whose work on scrolls of papyrus was revered above that of all other professions.
  — Mary Winston Nicklin, Washington Post, 1 July 2022
• Flying across it is a bird, perhaps a phoenix, rendered almost in calligraphy.
  — Raffi Khatchadourian, The New Yorker, 9 May 2022
• And the calligraphy, courtesy of Meghan, wasn't limited to the grownup gifts, apparently.
  — Kayleigh Roberts, Marie Claire, 22 Dec. 2020
• The easy calligraphy, the pulsing animation of a line that suggests rather than dictates.
  — Laird Borrelli-Persson, Vogue, 21 July 2022
• In March 2021, Meghan sent handwritten notes (putting her famous calligraphy skills to good use) wishing luck to women who were job hunting.
  — Stephanie Petit, PEOPLE.com, 18 Mar. 2022

Last Updated: 28 May 2024