inscribing

Example Sentences

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"They're inscribing something about their cosmology, their belief systems, into the earth itself in a very dramatic way."

From BBC • Nov. 27, 2025

Choosing a message is important, but so is inscribing it in the asphalt.

From Slate • Sep. 3, 2025

They left signed jerseys in their teammates’ lockers like classmates inscribing yearbooks after the school year, except the end came much more suddenly than any planned graduation.

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 13, 2025

For days, locals congregated at its base, inscribing 1,000 paper bags that held tealight candles and lined the Alki promenade as luminarias.

From Seattle Times • Feb. 17, 2022

He lobbied her for several days, even inscribing a copy of his book, Infections and Inequalities, “For Peggy McAvoy with a big hug of solidarity and with high hopes for your help in Haiti.”

From "Mountains Beyond Mountains" by Tracy Kidder and Michael French