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

Needs there the praise of the love-written record, The name and the epitaph graved on the stone!

From Grace Darling Heroine of the Farne Islands by Hope, Eva

Then I buried the giant in a deep and wide grave; and I raised a great carn over him, and placed on it a stone with his name graved in Ogam.

From Old Celtic Romances by Unknown

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