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.
was inscribing
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past progressiveof inscribe.past progressive
Used to describe an ongoing action or continuous state that was happening at a specific time in the past.
Example Sentences
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Min was inscribing lotus blossoms and peonies between the ribbed lines of one of the melon vases.
From "A Single Shard" by Linda Sue Park
When he entered the hermit's cell he found the old man sitting at an oaken table with a roll of parchment before him, upon which he was inscribing some holy legend.
From Olaf the Glorious A Story of the Viking Age by Robert Leighton
At that particular moment he was inscribing an anecdote which he had just heard some one telling in his mother's drawing room.
From With Those Who Wait by Frances Wilson Huard
