Examples of lettering in a Sentence
I couldn't read the sign's lettering.
a sign with gold lettering
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Officials also bought office supplies, snacks for district townhalls, jackets with city lettering for office staff and car rentals and flights for various events on issues like housing and economic development in Sacramento and Mexico.
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Tammy Murga, San Diego Union-Tribune, 13 Apr. 2025
Her riffs on seemingly objective inscriptions and notations for sound and motion, often paired with handwritten lettering or musical symbols, point back not just to the body of the maker, but to her cultural world.
—Mara Mills, Artforum, 1 Apr. 2025
Men sitting on the ground, surrounded by bars of soap, wrap each bar by hand in the company's signature white paper packaging stamped with blue Arabic lettering and two red keys, atop small wooden tables perched in front of them.
—Kat Lonsdorf, NPR, 1 Apr. 2025
On the map, nearly corresponding to the section of the base where Frank claimed to have found the barrel, in tiny lettering, were the words chemical bomb storage.
—Maddy Crowell, Harpers Magazine, 28 Mar. 2025
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Tammy Murga, San Diego Union-Tribune, 13 Apr. 2025
Her riffs on seemingly objective inscriptions and notations for sound and motion, often paired with handwritten lettering or musical symbols, point back not just to the body of the maker, but to her cultural world.
—Mara Mills, Artforum, 1 Apr. 2025
Men sitting on the ground, surrounded by bars of soap, wrap each bar by hand in the company's signature white paper packaging stamped with blue Arabic lettering and two red keys, atop small wooden tables perched in front of them.
—Kat Lonsdorf, NPR, 1 Apr. 2025
On the map, nearly corresponding to the section of the base where Frank claimed to have found the barrel, in tiny lettering, were the words chemical bomb storage.
—Maddy Crowell, Harpers Magazine, 28 Mar. 2025
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“Lettering.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/lettering. Accessed 3 May. 2025.
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lettering
noun
let·ter·ing
ˈlet-ə-riŋ 
: letters used in an inscription
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