How to Use papyrus in a Sentence

papyrus

noun

• He discovered a papyrus in the ruins.
• At the very least, James Cameron thinks papyrus is a cool font.
  — Jon Blistein, Rolling Stone, 20 Dec. 2022
• The dry climate of the Judean Desert helped preserve the papyrus.
  — Isabel Kershner, New York Times, 26 Oct. 2016
• That makes the contrast between the ink and papyrus not very strong.
  — Jason Daley, Smithsonian, 4 Oct. 2019
• And while azaleas and dwarf papyrus fill a shady side garden, crossvine drapes a gazebo with a veil of blooms.
  — Emily Young, latimes.com, 27 Apr. 2018
• The scientists then turned to papyrus records to figure out when the Nile River failed to flood as usual.
  — Nicholas St. Fleur, New York Times, 17 Oct. 2017
• The papyrus may contain verses from the Book of the Dead, which contains spells to help a dead person on their journey to the afterlife.
  — Jason Duaine Hahn, PEOPLE.com, 31 May 2022
• The delicate fragments of parchment and papyrus were preserved for 2,000 years thanks to the dark, dry conditions in the caves.
  — James Rogers, Fox News, 2 May 2018
• This complex scent wears beautifully with a strong base of North African papyrus and musk.
  — Grooming Playbook, The Salt Lake Tribune, 30 Sep. 2022
• The very first examples were drawn on papyrus; the leaves were formed into layers for a base and dried in preparation for the writings.
  — Brenda Yenke, cleveland, 30 June 2022
• The cache also holds amulets, mummy masks and papyrus scrolls covered in drawings of the goddess Tawert.
  — Jason Daley, Smithsonian, 26 Nov. 2019
• The ancient Egyptians wrote their wrinkle remedies on sheets of papyrus.
  — Aleksandra Crapanzano, Marie Claire, 20 Dec. 2012
• Schiødt teased details from the papyrus translated for her Ph.D. thesis, which will be published in full next year.
  — Fox News, 4 Mar. 2021
• Inside a store room, Ahmed Tarek and Maysa Rabea are placing the jagged pieces of the papyrus together, like trying to solve a jigsaw puzzle.
  — Sudarsan Raghavan, Washington Post, 22 Apr. 2021
• Our walls bore a mix of contemporary paintings and the papyrus my father would bring back from his travels.
  — Mona Awad, Vogue, 15 June 2021
• The papyrus is more than 19 feet long, according to a release from the University of Copenhagen last week.
  — Fox News, 4 Mar. 2021
• How Shahin or the curator, both of whom have since died, obtained the papyrus remains uncertain.
  — Ilan Ben Zion, ajc, 7 Sep. 2022
• The Turin papyrus has been studied since it was discovered in the early 1800s in a private tomb near modern-day Luxor.
  — Jennifer Billock, Smithsonian, 18 July 2017
• Expanding on his 2016 article for The Atlantic, Ariel Sabar digs into the story of the papyrus and the couple who tried to pass it off as real.
  — Monitor Reviewers, The Christian Science Monitor, 7 Oct. 2020
• That effect comes courtesy of white birch, lush ivy, wild fig, rhubarb, violet leaves, papyrus, incense and black tea.
  — Celia Shatzman, Forbes, 31 Jan. 2022
• But Seales said certain trace signals can now help distinguish the carbon ink from the carbonized papyrus.
  — Washington Post, 2 July 2019
• Why did King suddenly change her mind about the authenticity of the scrap of papyrus and decide to accept it?
  — Star Tribune, 7 Aug. 2020
• Written in ancient Greek, the papyrus has been in the possession of the University of Basel in Switzerland since the 16th century.
  — James Rogers, Fox News, 16 July 2018
• The University of Basel has dozens of ancient papyrus texts in its collection, but one has been known for centuries as the Basel Papyrus.
  — Kiona N. Smith, Ars Technica, 19 July 2018
• The name of the scroll’s owner, Pwkhaef, is inscribed on the papyrus, as well as on one sarcophagus and four sculptures, according to Live Science.
  — Isis Davis-Marks, Smithsonian Magazine, 21 Jan. 2021
• His technique for reassembling papyrus scrolls carbonized by the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in a.d.
  — Ariel Sabar, The Atlantic, 13 May 2020
• During a final wave of destruction, in AD 641, invaders fed the bound volumes and papyrus scrolls into the furnaces of the public baths, where they are said to have burned for six months.
  — Gary Wolf, WIRED, 23 Oct. 2003
• Dylan Blue is magnified by black pepper and papyrus wood, adding a curious mystery to the scent.
  — Dallas News, 30 Nov. 2022
• Achieving this milestone would set the stage for reading many more of the Herculaneum papyri and other ancient texts.
  — Margherita Bassi, Smithsonian Magazine, 6 Feb. 2024
• The lumps were in fact scrolls—also known as papyri, named for the papyrus they are made from—which had carbonized in the high-temperature, low-oxygen conditions created by the pyroclastic flows of the eruption.
  — Will Henshall, TIME, 21 Oct. 2023

Last Updated: 20 Oct 2024