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

So they decided to sublimate the chaos of the invasion, inscribing their new fears and hopes on pre-existing works by 17 artists.

From New York Times • Aug. 10, 2022

Min was inscribing lotus blossoms and peonies between the ribbed lines of one of the melon vases.

From "A Single Shard" by Linda Sue Park