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 work of Jean Francois Champollion (1790-1832) in deciphering hieroglyphics from the Rosetta Stone was an astonishing accomplishment, for it enabled us to read the myriad writings of the ancient Egyptians on papyrus and in wall inscriptions and revealed an enormous amount of the knowledge we have today about their civilization, which lasted for about 2600 years.

  • The front of the prayer hall is adorned with Arabic inscriptions and ceramic abstractions.

  • 09--found inside a footlocker at Fort Campbell, Ky., in 1971--bear the inscriptions "Jimi Vivar 70-71" (left) and "Viet Nam que loco" (right).

  • By l973 she knew so much, that in three hours working with an undergraduate, she was able to decipher Mayan inscriptions that had baffled scholars for decades.


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