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• The medal had a cross on the obverse and had a name inscribed on the reverse.From the entry obverse
• Penniform symbols were inscribed on the wall of the cave.From the entry penniform
• Aviform symbols were inscribed on the wall of the cave.From the entry aviform
• Pectiform symbols were inscribed on the wall of the cave.From the entry pectiform
• Regal sea goddesses have navy blue bodies inscribed with yellow lines and often polka dots.2022 April 12, Jack Israel, “Short but Beautiful Lives”, in world.dan.org. From the entry regal sea goddess
• We inscribe words on bark, papyri, codices, human skin (tattoos), books, magazines, bracelets, and automobiles.2020 January 29, Douglas Groothuis, “Texts, Graphics, and Culture: On the Decline of Reading and Civilization”, in Douglas Groothuis…. From the entry inscripturation
• The officers' blades were inscribed 'Garde impériale' and either 'Grenadiers à pied' or 'Chasseurs à pied'.2017 June 30, Henri Lachouque, Anne S. K. Brown, The Anatomy of Glory: Napoleon and His Guard, Pen and Sword, →ISBN. From the entry briquet
• The Archimedean solids can all be inscribed in a sphere and in one of the Platonic solids.2014, Walter Steurer, “Crystal Structures of Metallic Elements and Compounds”, in David E. Laughlin, Kazuhiro Hono, editors, Physical…. From the entry midsphere
• Each type of thermometer has a specific kata factor inscribed on its stem.2006, G. M. Dhaar, I. Robbani, Foundations of Community Medicine, page 41. From the entry kata factor
• To perform the site is to inscribe the pretour narrative within the body of the tourist.2005, Edward M. Bruner, Culture on Tour: Ethnographies of Travel, page 24. From the entry Maasai
• The text is inscribed on a clay tablet of a very unusual format.2000, Jöran Friberg, A Remarkable Collection of Babylonian Mathematical Texts, page ix. From the entry cuneiform
• The name is inscribed on a small cement footpad in the path through the flowers.1996 August 11, Paul Gately, “The garden of Weeden”, in South Coast Today, United States, archived from the original on 04 Sep 2025. From the entry Garden of Weeden
• The Tetragrammatons are written out in such a way that the names of single letters are inscribed.1982, Judaica Bohemiae, page 103. From the entry tetragrammaton
• Jo read the following words, inscribed in peacock blue ink, in a near cursive hand.1980 April 19, Andrea Loewenstein, “Random Lust”, in Gay Community News, page 10. From the entry peacock blue
• There is a seau painted in polychrome with festoons and masks, in the Sevres Museum, inscribed Cartus.1908, William Chaffers, Frederick Litchfield, Marks & Monograms on European and Oriental Pottery and Porcelain with Historical Notices of…. From the entry seau
• A simple curse tablet might be inscribed with the words “As this piece of lead grows cold, so will John Smith.”2010, Allan Zola Kronzek, Elizabeth Kronzek, The Sorcerer's Companion, 3rd edition, page 52. From the entry curse tablet
• The pentagram becomes a pentacle when it is enclosed within a circle and inscribed on a disc or stone.2007 March 1, Ruth Barr, chapter 5, in Women's Rites, Women's Mysteries: Intuitive Ritual Creation, 2nd edition, Woodbury: Llewellyn…. From the entry pentacle
• The sixty binomes are inscribed clockwise around the circular ring.2007, Francesca Bray, Vera Dorofeeva-Lichtmann, Georges Métailié, Graphics and Text in the Production of Technical Knowledge in China, →ISBN. From the entry binome
• In the first register is the name of Narmer represented as a fish and a chisel inscribed in the serekh.2005, Abeer El-Shahawy, The Egyptian Museum in Cairo: A Walk Through the Alleys of Ancient Egypt, page 23. From the entry register
• Inscribed dedications often took the form of korai (singular: kore): statues, usually life-size or larger of female figures, generally goddesses.2002, Matthew Dillon, Girls and Women in Classical Greek Religion, page 9. From the entry kore
• Aside from those cited in this miscellaneum, other copies are to be seen at Bryn Mawr (inscribed by Kennerley to R.1999: Housman Society, Housman Society Journal, page 87 (Turner & Devereux). From the entry miscellaneum
• Another treasure in the collection is a replica of the Great Rosetta stone inscribed in ancient Egyptian and ancient Greek.1988 May 31, Charles Hillinger, “Mummy Just Spent 50 Years in Attic […]”, in Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles, Calif.: Los Angeles Times…. From the entry Ancient Greek
• Inside a border of fanciful Morrocan ormentation was inscribed in elaborate script the name of the smokeasy: “Au Contraire.”1979, Albert Harry Goldman, Grass Roots: Marijuana in America Today, Harper & Row, →ISBN, page 14. From the entry smokeasy
• It was inscribed on one of its sides.1978, "Wenwu" (Cultural Relics) Magazine Reporter, “New Archaeological Finds: A Preliminary Summary of Important Discoveries”, in New…. From the entry Naiman
• The priest at that time would give a death-name for the deceased, eventually to be inscribed on a stone monument.1968, Richard K. Beardsley, John W. Hall, Robert E. Ward, Village Japan, page 342. From the entry death-name
• The letters "SC" inscribed on the smokebox door of a locomotive denote that it is fitted with a self-cleaning smokebox.1951 January, “The Why and the Wherefore: Locomotive Markings”, in Railway Magazine, page 73. From the entry denote
• In it is inscribed a quatrefoil with double foliation.1913, Francis Bond, An Introduction to English Church Architecture from the Eleventh to the Sixteenth Century, page 632. From the entry cinquefoiled
• In particular, Connolly loved good food, expensive wine, first-class travel, inscribed first editions, the South of France and, not least, comely young women.2020 February 18, Michael Dirda, “A tale of the free-spirited women who tangled with Orwell and other literary lions”, in Washington Post. From the entry comely
• Thousands of these decorated and inscribed stones have been unearthed and are to-day in our possession; glyptologists can and have read them.2019, Maxwell Sommerville, Engraved Gems. From the entry glyptologist
• Never mind the semicontroversial "Stop Snitching" T-shirts, where the threatening command not to talk to the police is inscribed within a red octagon.2005 October 13, Kelefa Sanneh, “Cracking the Code in Hip-Hop”, in The New York Times. From the entry semicontroversial
• As a security item the bum bag is useless and may as well be inscribed with flashing lights announcing “Valuable items inside, help yourself”.2003, Lesley Reader, Lucy Ridout, First-Time Asia, page 230. From the entry bum bag
• The other sustains a spear with the cap of liberty and over the whole floats a banner-roll, inscribed - "The spell is broken".2000, Anita Callaway, Visual Ephemera: Theatrical Art in Nineteenth-century Australia, UNSW Press, →ISBN, page 19. From the entry banner roll
• I got one offered directly from the author (or should I say authrix) with the choices: not signed or inscribed, signed or signed and inscribed.2000 June 25, Willem Timmer, “Small brag (association copy?)”, in rec.collecting.books (Usenet). From the entry authrix
• The ineliminable presence of action and with it of inscribed presence of the actative in this formulation should not therefore pass unnoticed.1998, Andrew Benajamin, “Shoah, remembrance and the abeyance of fate: Walter Benjamin's 'fate and character'”, in Laura Marcus, Lynda…. From the entry actative
• When the inscribed oracle bones first came on the market, the merchants maintained that they came from both T'ang-yin 湯陰 and An-yang in Honan.[1980, Kwang-chih Chang, “Prolegomena: Five Doors to Shang”, in Shang Civilization, Yale University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 42. From the entry Tangyin
• Since the direction in which the blood is propelled at the time is footward, the body is thrust headward and an upward peak is inscribed.1952, Annals of Internal Medicine (volume 36, part 2, page 1389). From the entry footward
• My centuria slept in one of the stables, under the stone mangers where the names of the cavalry chargers were still inscribed.1938 April, George Orwell [pseudonym; Eric Arthur Blair], chapter I, in Homage to Catalonia, London: Secker & Warburg, →OCLC. From the entry charger

Meaning of inscribe

1. verb To write or cut (words) onto (something, especially a hard surface, or a book to be given to another person); to engrave.
2. verb To dedicate to someone.
3. verb To enter on a document or list; to enroll.

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How do you use inscribe in a sentence?

Inscribe is used as a verb. For example: “I inscribed the book with a message for Kate.”

What is a short sentence with inscribe?

“I inscribed my name into the book.”

What does inscribe mean?

Inscribe means to write or cut (words) onto (something, especially a hard surface, or a book to be given to another person); to engrave.