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• The inscription records her defeat of the country's enemies in a costly war.From the entry defeat
• The weather has worn away the inscription, and it is no longer legible.From the entry away
• The anciently written inscriptions in the pyramids can still be read.From the entry anciently
• They couldn't make anything of the inscription.From the entry make
• I shone my flashlight on the strange inscription.From the entry flashlight
• An inscription was appended to the column.From the entry append
• Long lacunae in this inscription make interpretation difficult.From the entry lacuna
• The obverse side of the gravestone has the inscription.From the entry obverse
• The stone bears a short inscription.From the entry bear
• All the ars in the inscription.From the entry ar
• In Libyco-Berber inscriptions from Dougga however, there is evidence for seven graphemes representing seven phonemically distinct sibilants.2025, Cid Swanenvleugel, The Pre-Roman Elements of the Sardinian Lexicon, page 395. From the entry Dougga
• The combination of brk and rb is quite spectacular from the perspective of the pagan Arabian inscriptions.2021, Ahmad Al-Jallad, Hythem Sidky, “A Paleo‐Arabic inscription on a route north of Ṭāʾif”, in Arabian Archaeology & Epigraphy, volume…. From the entry Himyarite
• He called the contractor and ordered a replacement headstone with a new inscription.2020, Akwaeke Emezi, The Death of Vivek Oji, Faber & Faber Ltd, page 227. From the entry headstone
• A tone poem, a character study, an inscription of that which is uninscribable.2020 April 29, C Pam Zhang, “Top 10 novels about moving”, in The Guardian. From the entry uninscribable
• The inscriptions are on the walls of Dayu Cave in the Qinling Mountains of central China.2015 August 17, Sindya N. Bhanoo, “A Chinese Drought Weather Report Written on Cave Walls”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived…. From the entry Qinling Mountains
• Most Cisalpine Celtic inscriptions are of the proprietary or funerary type.2012, Joseph Eska, “Inscriptions, Ancient”, in John T[homas] Koch, Antone Minard, editors, The Celts: History, Life, and Culture, volume 2…. From the entry cisalpine
• The key was to speak the two correct words that had been misscribed in the inscription above.2012, Lisa Smedman, The Gilded Rune, →ISBN. From the entry misscribe
• A bronze denier bearing the inscription CONRADUS around a central cross, was minted in Lugdunum.2011, Norman Davies, Vanished Kingdoms, Penguin, published 2012, page 117. From the entry denier
• It is possible to spend a long time looking at this inscription.2011, Richard [T.] Neer, “Poussin’s Useless Treasures”, in Herbert L[eon] Kessler, David Nirenberg, editors, Judaism and Christian Art…. From the entry head-scratching
• The perfume and the "SWAK" inscription attracted a lot of attention, and a lot of teasing.2008, George Graham, Girlie, Lulu.com, →ISBN, page 28. From the entry SWAK
• Another stone-vessel inscription associates this structure with the Gold name Ren.2006, Erik Hornung, Rolf Krauss, David Warburton, Ancient Egyptian Chronology, page 103. From the entry gold name
• The value of gravestone inscriptions for ancestral research has long been recognised.2005, William J. Roulston, Researching Scots-Irish Ancestors: The Essential Genealogical Guide to Early Modern Ulster, 1600-1800, Ulster…. From the entry gravestone
• These inscriptions are in Mongolian and thus widen the appliqué's international connections.1990 April, Orientations. From the entry mongolian
• Fragment of an inscription in a tabula carved in the rock.1982, H. W. Pleket, R. S. Stroud, Supplementum Epigraphicum Graecum [SEG]: 1978, page 227. From the entry tabula
• A memorial inscription on Long Melford church reads, 'the work of well-disposed men'.1980, AA Book of British Villages, Drive Publications Ltd, page 269. From the entry well-disposed
• CHARTOMANCY: Divination by writing or interpreting inscriptions, sometimes of mysterious origin.[1973, Walter B. Gibson, Litzka R. Gibson, The Complete Illustrated Book of Divination and Prophecy, London: Souvenir Press, published…. From the entry chartomancy
• The later Bhaumas who were originally Buddhists became worshippers of Siva as is known from their inscriptions.1964, Nabin Kumar Sahu, Utkal University History Of Orissa, volume 1, The Utkal University, page 7. From the entry shiva
• Slab-stelæ, on the other hand, are shorter and most of them bear inscriptions only on the reverse.1915, Sylvanus Griswold Morley, An Introduction to the Study of the Maya Hieroglyphs, Chapter 2. From the entry glyph
• Further in the Orkhon inscriptions very similar figures are designated as balbals, memorial statues.1913, Ellis H[ovell] Minns, “Scythic Tombs”, in Scythians and Greeks: A Survey of Ancient History and Archaeology on the North Coast of…. From the entry balbal
• Before the train had stopped he had decorated his sinister shirt-cuff with the inscription, ‘J.1911, Saki, ‘The Unrest-Cure’, The Chronicles of Clovis. From the entry sinister
• Its bressummer inscription commemorates the Jubilee of Queen Victoria and the 50th anniversary of the opening of the Grand Junction Railway.2022 September 7, Dr Joseph Brennan, “Railway towns and a social revolution”, in RAIL, number 965, page 56, photo caption. From the entry bressummer
• A six-character inscription cast inside the bowl records that this gui was made for a nobleman of the E state.2014, Liu Yang, Cast for Eternity, Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, →ISBN, →OCLC, →OL, page 15. From the entry e
• And although it bore a tinted greenish coating, it was not enough to mar the inscription: CHANCE BROTHERS & COMPANY, Ltd.2014, Glenn M. Cosh, “Flashback”, in The Green Flash, Zest Publishing, →ISBN, page 5. From the entry constructioner
• The Sicilian Hellenistic inscriptions, and especially the public ones, show a highly standardized language, which can be called Sicilian Doric koina.2012, Susana Mimbrera, “The Sicilian Doric koina”, in Olga Tribulato, editor, Language and Linguistic Contact in Ancient Sicily, Cambridge…. From the entry koina
• Regarding their religion only an inscription on a votive offering dedicated to the god Declunus, or goddess Decluna, sheds light.2006, Carl Waldman, Encyclopedia of European peoples, New York: Facts On File, →ISBN, page 850. From the entry Declunus
• The inscription on the stone read PAZ.2005, David Terrenoire, Beneath a Panamanian Moon, page 253. From the entry peace out
• Marsian is mainly attested in a few short inscriptions from the third and second centuries bc: VM 3–7.2004, Jane Stuart-Smith, Phonetics and Philology: Sound Change in Italic, Oxford University Press, page 125. From the entry Marsian
• In one such inscription, Odaenathus is referred to in Palmyrene simply as Ras Tadmor without any indicators of Roman rank.2003, Gary K. Young, Rome's Eastern Trade, page 209. From the entry Palmyrene
• Those four books contain the inscriptions that Itzamna found in a superancient ruin near the Mayan city of Izapa.2003, M. G. Harris, The Joshua Files: Zero Moment, Walker, →ISBN, page 28. From the entry superancient

Meaning of inscription

1. noun The act of inscribing.
2. noun Text carved on a wall or plaque, such as a memorial or gravestone, or on some other item.
3. noun The text on a coin.

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Questions about inscription in a sentence

How do you use inscription in a sentence?

Inscription is used as a noun. For example: “The coin bears an inscription in Latin.”

What is a short sentence with inscription?

“All the ars in the inscription.”

What does inscription mean?

Inscription means the act of inscribing.