Example Sentences
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It took him a full day to broadcast the seed into the furrows, after which he folded away the burlap, barely noticing a stencilled word indicating where it had come from: Odessa.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 17, 2025
A slogan stencilled in red onto the road in Hebrew, Arabic and English by the side of the road read: "Drawing the line."
From Reuters ● Mar. 16, 2023
Next to that is the stencilled face of Valerii Zaluzhnyi, the commander-in-chief of Ukraine’s armed forces, holding up two fingers in a V-for-victory gesture.
From Seattle Times ● Feb. 23, 2023
It was vandalised soon after it appeared, with six teddy bears stencilled beneath and the words "Banksy Collaboration Emo" added.
From BBC ● Jul. 31, 2022
"He's his name stencilled on all the capes and muletas," she said.
From "The Sun Also Rises" by Ernest Hemingway
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