Example sentences for: hieroglyphics

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

  • The whole Yucatán peninsula witnessed the flowering of classic Mayan civilization and a society of great sophistication; with its magnificent pyramids, temples, and palaces decorated with wall paintings and carved low-reliefs, a written language of hieroglyphics, and complicated medical procedures to heal the injured or the sick.

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

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

  • By 1945, he was making large tableaux of what he called hieroglyphics: fields of human figures, symbolic objects, and words, many of them in invented languages.

  • Biggest plus: The animation is glorious, especially the parting of the Red Sea and a neat sequence with dancing hieroglyphics.


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