All 8 Uses of
embedded
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The Da Vinci Code
- The staircase, like the aisle of a dark movie theater, was illuminated by subtle tread-lighting embedded in each step.†
Chpt 4
- In the reflection of the shiny elevator door, he saw the captain's tie clip—a silver crucifix with thirteen embedded pieces of black onyx.†
Chpt 4
- Feeling drained, she walked to the small plate-glass window at the far end of the bathroom and gazed out in silence through the mesh of alarm tape embedded in the glass.†
Chpt 15-16
- Turning toward the window, Sophie gazed through the alarm mesh embedded in the plate glass, down the dizzying forty feet to the pavement below.†
Chpt 15-16
- As the disk sank into the soft surface, she pinched the hole closed, firmly embedding the device in the bar.†
Chpt 17-18 *
- Embedded in the gray granite floor, a thin polished strip of brass glistened in the stone… a golden line slanting across the church's floor.†
Chpt 21-22
- Within seconds, he found what he knew was there—several bronze medallions embedded in the ground in a perfectly straight line.†
Chpt 105
- The streets of Paris, Langdon had learned years ago, were adorned with 135 of these bronze markers, embedded in sidewalks, courtyards, and streets, on a north-south axis across the city.†
Chpt 105
Definition:
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(embedded) firmly withinin various senses, including:
- firmly stuck into -- as a thorn into a finger
- enclosed within -- as a fossil within a rock
- implanted as a part -- sometimes specifically of a reporter living with a military unit