Example Sentences

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Most of the house has inlaid hardwood floors.

From Washington Post • Mar. 24, 2023

The subway station at Astor Place has inlaid beaver plaques on its walls, since the street’s namesake, John Jacob Astor, made big bucks hawking beaver pelts.

From New York Times • Aug. 6, 2019

He comes now into the awful presence of the powers and the facts which the Creator has inlaid in the world, of physical existence.

From Sermons to the Natural Man by Shedd, William G. T. (William Greenough Thayer)