Example sentences for: inscriptions

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

  • A Renaissance portal, a distinguished later addition, opens onto spacious courtyards where horseshoe arches, Arabic inscriptions, and distinctive tile ornaments indicate the Moorish origins of this grand building.

  • The author makes an interesting attempt to account for several features of the runestones: the reason for their being left in Maine, the presence of Danish and other words in the inscriptions, the implications of runic inscriptions in which oghams occur together with runes, etc.

  • Even the remnants we have from early languages that had a writing system are relatively sparse: Classical Latin and Greek, Hebrew, and a few other languages are better documented than others; but for most all we have to go on are a handful of tablets here, a few inscriptions there, barely enough in many cases to allow us to identify the language, let alone draw any conclusions regarding its structure or meaning.

  • The museum also contains an eclectic mix of stone sculptures, including some Roman tombstones, several Arab votive inscriptions, and medieval tomb carvings.

  • The delightful Piazza Bellini includes the 12th-century church of San Cataldo with its three little red domes and Arabic inscriptions.


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