Example sentences for: hieroglyphics

How can you use “hieroglyphics” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • The vocabulary is jocular in its easy mixture of the casual (in slang or coinages or abbreviations), the learned (in avatar, baroque, catatonic, synchronous ), the visual (in hieroglyphics or emoticons), and even the aural (in the fondness for explosives, like bang , common spoken name for !) or onomatopoeia ( bletch, glitch, gonk ).

  • The work of Jean Francois Champollion (1790-1832) in deciphering hieroglyphics from the Rosetta Stone was an astonishing accomplishment, for it enabled us to read the myriad writings of the ancient Egyptians on papyrus and in wall inscriptions and revealed an enormous amount of the knowledge we have today about their civilization, which lasted for about 2600 years.

  • To the uninitiated these marks to look like hieroglyphics of an ancient people.

  • Thus, we might conclude that Egyptian hieroglyphics are largely pleremic, while our modern alphabetic system is largely cenemic, though neither is exclusively so.

  • Explanation: Infirmities prevent him from scribbling much beyond his signature, so he's trained himself to compress the world into verbal hieroglyphics.


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