inscribe

During Greco-Roman times, Egyptian artists were called upon to inscribe funerary spells on linen mummy bandages.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 30, 2026

Depending on the magnitude of the game, and of the challenge, Burruss would name the cast after a mountain peak, and use a Sharpie to inscribe the cast accordingly.

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 4, 2025

If you get sued, stress the expressive elements of your business, from your choice of furnishings, colors and fabrics to marketing, including the fanciful words you inscribe on the bibles in each room.

From Salon ● Jul. 8, 2023

Now there are two more names to inscribe on the wall of remembrance.

From BBC ● May 26, 2022

Isobel does not even inscribe her name upon the pages, referring to her in passing only as the illusionist, a precaution he advised himself and now regrets.

From "The Night Circus" by Erin Morgenstern

A high-powered laser pulse then inscribes these minuscule voxels into square glass plates that are roughly the size of a CD.

From Barron's ● Feb. 18, 2026

For a reader self-identified as a “young budding historian obsessed with history,” Caro inscribes, “To a fellow history lover.”

From Seattle Times ● Dec. 18, 2023

A glowing, impossibly narrow point inscribes itself firmly on San Francisco’s skyline.

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 16, 2021

Warren’s scene takes place at a book signing, where she inscribes a book for a fellow-senator, played by John Goodman, promising that she’s not going to run for President.

From The New Yorker ● Sep. 23, 2019

There is no frost upon the windows of Marco’s flat, so he inscribes lines of symbols in the shape of a letter A with ink, pressing his darkened fingers against the panes.

From "The Night Circus" by Erin Morgenstern

The bust is inscribed with the Latin phrase "me fecit Roma", translating to "Rome made me"

From BBC ● Sep. 15, 2026

She said she inscribed it with, “Turn this book back into a tree.”

From Salon ● Sep. 3, 2026

The iconic D-Day landing beaches in Normandy were on Sunday inscribed on UNESCO's World Heritage List, marking the culmination of a project launched nearly two decades ago.

From Barron's ● Jul. 26, 2026

There are many meanings that have been inscribed to “Cut Piece,” in which Ono invited the audience to come on stage and, with a pair scissors, cut off a small piece of her dress.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 21, 2026

He takes the pages inscribed with her handwriting, descriptions of striped tents and star-speckled skies, and folds them into birds, letting them fly around the empty flat.

From "The Night Circus" by Erin Morgenstern

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

Mr Rimmer explains that his systems can provide that failsafe verification, by inscribing data inside the diamond - data that is impossible to remove, but does not devalue the gem in any way.

From BBC ● Oct. 27, 2022

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