inlay
verb (used with object)
to decorate (an object) with layers of fine materials set in its surface.
have inlaid
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present perfectof inlay.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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Addison got himself ridiculed for that fine natural taste, which felt all the witchery of our ballad-Enniuses, whose beauties, had Virgil lived with Addison, he would have inlaid into his mosaic.
From Calamities and Quarrels of Authors by Isaac Disraeli
Some of these heads have inlaid eyes and teeth of stone.
From The Bontoc Igorot by Albert Ernest Jenks
