hieroglyph

Example Sentences

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A vulture is used as the hieroglyph for mother, mut being the word for them both, and for the mother goddess of Thebes.

From Salon • May 11, 2025

Some other holes were tagged with the Nefer hieroglyph, the symbol for “good”; perhaps some benefit accrued to pieces that landed there, Carter speculated.

From The New Yorker • Mar. 26, 2019

The Egyptians had a hieroglyph fashioned after the barn owl.

From Seattle Times • Apr. 30, 2015

We study crossed out words, watch a phrase contract or expand from one page to another, or enjoy the odd drawing, suspended between lettering and hieroglyph.

From New York Times • Apr. 2, 2015

And of course Marshall’s hieroglyph was the double crown of Egypt because he was already the boy-pharaoh—and that’s what he liked to be best.

From "The Egypt Game" by Zilpha Keatley Snyder