graved

Example Sentences

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When they pull up to the empty lot, she isn’t sure it’s right—the dirt graved in white and the scrappy weeds glazed to silver.

From The New Yorker • Mar. 20, 2017

Those words of Czechoslovakia's national hero, Jan Hus, are en graved on the base of his statue in Prague.

From Time Magazine Archive

They graved their stags and boars from Nature, not from conventional designs; the result is that we admire them now because Nature is constant, and her fashions endure.

From The Hills and the Vale by Jefferies, Richard

On the top of the armring there was a small fingerring with a rune graved upon it.

From The Children of Odin The Book of Northern Myths by Pogany, Willy

The latter did not possess the three furrows of the groins, thin as lines, that he had graved upon the marble.

From Ancient Manners Also Known As Aphrodite by Lou?s, Pierre