Example Sentences

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The palazzo is filled with ornate wall coverings and moldings, rococo furniture and artworks, and marble floors with intricately detailed inlays.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 9, 2026

Sometimes she adds strips to form undulating ridges or presses bits of colored clay into carved-out areas as inlays.

From New York Times • Mar. 9, 2023

The queen’s name is inscribed on the ledger stone in brass letter inlays, alongside the names of her husband, mother and father.

From Seattle Times • Sep. 29, 2022

The ledger stone is made of hand-carved Belgian black marble with brass letter inlays, to match the previous ledger stone.

From BBC • Sep. 28, 2022

The balustrades are dark wood, and the twisted inlays remind me of crooked fingers, beckoning.

From "The Bletchley Riddle" by Ruta Sepetys and Steve Sheinkin