Example sentences for: inscribed

How can you use “inscribed” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • Because of the material on which it was inscribed, the message had to be brief and literally to the point.

  • This library of inscribed stone slabs, including a complete edition of the Confucian classics (carved in a.d. 837), documents the history of Chinese culture and calligraphy.

  • I entered this strange territory, and thereon the chalkboard was inscribed:

  • Last year a conservative writer named Richard Brookhiser published a biography, titled Founding Father: Rediscovering George Washington , which made the point that Washington, by keeping in mind his carefully inscribed numbered Rules throughout his momentous life, conducted himself correctly in all the Little Ways (no bedewing of others with Spittle, Hats properly Doffed, and so forth), which led to right conduct in the Big Ways, too, thus to political and military triumph.

  • The NYT 's article adds a new wrinkle: Lewinsky will hand over, in addition to phone messages and the sex dress, a "photograph of Clinton that he had inscribed to her."


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