inscribe
verb (used with object)
to address or dedicate (a book, photograph, etc.) informally to a person, especially by writing a brief personal note in or on it.
has inscribed
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present perfectof inscribe (3rd person singular).present perfect
Used to describe actions that started in the past and continue into or have direct relevance to the present.
Example Sentences
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It hardly seems an accident that Paul Thomas Anderson has inscribed his monogram in the title of his eighth feature, “Phantom Thread,” which chronicles a few chapters in Reynolds’s fictional life and career.
From New York Times ● Dec. 24, 2017
Facebook Twitter Pinterest Joe with the stones he has inscribed with messages to the archbishop of Canterbury.
From The Guardian ● Mar. 15, 2016
On the back of the last page Lincoln has inscribed it:
From Washington Post ● Feb. 7, 2015
In Alexandria," he added, "a certain Thompson, of Sunderland, has inscribed his name in letters 6 feet high on Pompey's Pillar.
From Slate ● May 31, 2013
Who was the Hannah, whose fickleness occasioned that exquisite little poem which Montgomery has inscribed "To the memory of her who is dead to me?"
From The Romance of Biography (Vol 2 of 2) or Memoirs of Women Loved and Celebrated by Poets, from the Days of the Troubadours to the Present Age. 3rd ed. 2 Vols. by Mrs. (Anna) Jameson
