Example Sentences

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Then he gave me a signed copy of the book that he had inscribed, “Why not?”

From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 16, 2024

She told me that she sometimes got calls from a man who had stolen a book that Salinger had inscribed to her family, which he had then sold to the Morgan Library.

From The New Yorker • Apr. 18, 2017

She had inscribed her belief she could beat Mattsson and Yoshida at the Olympics with the requisite work.

From Washington Post • Aug. 18, 2016

Last year at a Bonhams auction in Los Angeles, a book of Solomon’s love poems that he had inscribed to the writer Algernon Charles Swinburne brought $17,500.

From New York Times • Apr. 30, 2015

On the headboard of one of the beds, some past student had inscribed, with a Sharpie and a careful hand: ipsa scientia potestas est.

From "When Dimple Met Rishi" by Sandhya Menon