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

The diagnostic definition has changed dramatically in that time, inscribing children with a broad range of abilities, needs and behaviors within a single term: autism spectrum disorder.

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 20, 2025

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

From Slate • Sep. 3, 2025

What anchors the “Bolañoverse,” our reviewer, Garth Risk Hallberg, commented, is “the loss of youth inscribing a larger loss of historical possibility.”

From New York Times • Feb. 25, 2022

She tries to think the way she imagines Marco might have as he wrote it, picturing him inscribing each page, rendering the delicate ink branches of the tree that winds throughout the book.

From "The Night Circus" by Erin Morgenstern