hieroglyphs
Example Sentences
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The house has a defective chimney, a historic beehive oven and even a hidden chamber decorated with hieroglyphs.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 5, 2026
Incoherent hieroglyphs plate the walls, plastic pharaohs stand guard in the check-in lane, and taxis idle under the haunches of a gargantuan Sphinx.
From Slate ● Nov. 18, 2025
The exterior is covered in hieroglyphs and translucent alabaster cut into triangles with a pyramid shaped entrance.
From BBC ● Oct. 31, 2025
She writes snatches of description and dialogue in her journal, but when she reads them later, her words jumble like hieroglyphs.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 22, 2025
“I have been informed that you are the artist who drew the hieroglyphs for the sides of my obelisk,” spoke the pharaoh.
From "The (Mostly) True Story of Cleopatra's Needle" by Dan Gutman
