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
Overall she says the video seemed "poorly researched" and pointed out an instance where a teacher in a school scene is reading the hieroglyphs backward when they should be read from right to left.
From BBC ● Feb. 22, 2025
What initially appears abstract contains hidden images: Wild creatures and undecipherable hieroglyphs lurk in the paint.
From Seattle Times ● Apr. 24, 2024
Each Gnommish figure had to be enlarged, printed, and then compared with the hieroglyphs.
From "Artemis Fowl" by Eoin Colfer
