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Example Sentences

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By spring, he was sending Maggie gifts again, like the engraved portrait of himself created for his upcoming book.

From Literature

An azure booth is flanked by an abstracted mermaid sculpture, and elsewhere howling wolves are engraved into the bar tops.

From Los Angeles Times

On a small mammoth carved from tusk, the researchers analysed carefully engraved rows of crosses and dots.

From BBC

Bellowing "Silence, everyone!" to terrified parliamentarians, the man with a bushy moustache and shiny tricorn quickly caught the public's attention in an image engraved on the nation's collective memory.

From Barron's

Other objects from the same region also contain similar engravings.

From Science Daily