How to Use cursive in a Sentence

cursive

1 of 2 adjective

• 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 | [e-mail], 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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