Rebus used in a sentence

Rebus in a sentence as a noun

Chinese in practice is a rebus for a language that was spoken 3,000 years ago.

It took me exactly 20 seconds to get the email address behind this ... and I'm not a professional rebus solver.

The best you could do is draw a mural with a guy, with rebus device to suggest his name, surrounded by rain, hoping to convey such a sentence.

For example, there was a problem related to generating rebusses* whose solution contributed to the solution to another problem I was working on.

The rebus principle was already present in both cuneiform and hieroglyphics, and Middle Egyptian already developed a full inventory of consonant glyphs, although these were not used exclusively.

Contrary to popular misconception, Exceptio probat regulam de rebus non exceptis is not a generally-applicable principle of English semantics.