Example Sentences

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Across the room, Jason Adkins of Atlanta was lettering "Lucky Man" below the clavicles of D.C. special education teacher Adam Wells.

From Washington Post • Feb. 7, 2011

There was lettering, too, upon the undermost side when the man turned it over.

From Brother Copas by Quiller-Couch, Arthur Thomas, Sir

There was lettering on the lid; in fact, the name of its owner, Stanley Hargreave.

From The Million Dollar Mystery Novelized from the Scenario of F. Lonergan by MacGrath, Harold

Sometimes there was lettering around the flat edge of the paten.

From Arts and Crafts in the Middle Ages A Description of Mediaeval Workmanship in Several of the Departments of Applied Art, Together with Some Account of Special Artisans in the Early Renaissance by Addison, Julia de Wolf Gibbs