Sample Sentences for
inscribe
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    Her name is inscribed in history.
    inscribed = written
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    "NEMO 1934," he scrawled, no doubt moved by the same impulse that compelled Chris McCandless to inscribe "Alexander Supertramp/May 1992" on the wall of the Sushana bus, an impulse not so different, perhaps, from that which inspired the Anasazi to embellish the rock with their own now-indecipherable symbols.  (source)
    inscribe = write
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    In one of the books he learned that the most important text in the literature of alchemy contained only a few lines, and had been inscribed on the surface of an emerald.  (source)
    inscribed = written
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    He knelt and read the inscription: In Loving Memory Winifred Foster Jackson Dear Wife Dear Mother 1870-1948  (source)
    inscription = words written on something's surface
    standard suffix: The suffix "-tion", converts a verb into a noun that denotes the action or result of the verb. Typically, there is a slight change in the ending of the root verb, as in action, education, and observation.
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    These Seven Commandments would now be inscribed on the wall; they would form an unalterable law by which all the animals on Animal Farm must live for ever after.  (source)
    inscribed = formally written
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    Baba was reciting a long poem he had deciphered from ancient stone inscriptions.†  (source)
    standard suffix: The suffix "-tions", converts a verb into a plural noun that denotes results of the verb. Typically, there is a slight change in the ending of the root verb, as in actions, illustrations, and observations.
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    The cadets inscribe the words into their composition books.†  (source)
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    He had completed inscribing the circle that same day.†  (source)
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    Each young and ardent person writes a diary, in which, when the hours of prayer and penitence arrive, he inscribes his soul.†  (source)
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    So also, as regards the Judge Pyncheon of to-day, neither clergyman, nor legal critic, nor inscriber of tombstones, nor historian of general or local politics, would venture a word against this eminent person's sincerity as a Christian, or respectability as a man, or integrity as a judge, or courage and faithfulness as the often-tried representative of his political party.†  (source)
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    Above us in Latin flowed the inscription, Here Boys Come to Be Made Men.  (source)
    inscription = to write; or something written
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    All his books were inscribed with other boys' names, never his own.†  (source)
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    Of course the inscriptions were usually in Greek which I couldn't read, but I believed him.†  (source)
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