Example Sentences

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“The Scarlet Letter” has engraved Nathaniel Hawthorne’s name into our national psyche as a critic of tyrannical small-town morality.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 27, 2026

She has engraved the names in the big trophy.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 22, 2017

In another pasture, John Allen has engraved a message into a narrow slab of granite laid flush with the ground.

From New York Times • Aug. 27, 2011

Still, the party has engraved invitations with a request for business attire and an effusive statement about the couple’s affection for each other.

From New York Times • May 13, 2011

It may be said of Mme d'Houdetot that her ideal existence was always bounded by that Montmorency valley where the ardent devotion of Jean Jacques has engraved her memory, as it were, in immortal characters.

From The Bed-Book of Happiness by Begbie, Harold