Example Sentences

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Kochan said a modern jeweler could have engraved the names on another sword.

From Fox News • Nov. 6, 2019

In another era, Josseline’s death might have engraved itself on our imagination, like the missing kids whose faces were reproduced on milk cartons.

From Salon • Sep. 18, 2012

He wanted something bigger, in plain gold, on which he could have engraved his family’s coat of arms, couped stag’s head shield, antlered crest and all.

From New York Times • Dec. 23, 2010

Months after their shared moment in the desert, the two decided to commission a tattoo that both would have engraved on their arms.

From Washington Post

Height and flight are precisely the dream which we would select from the infinite visions of the soul and have engraved on our seal as a motto for eternity.

From The Arena Volume 18, No. 93, August, 1897 by Various