Example Sentences

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Through making their mark, they – as ephemeral beings – were inscribing themselves into the book's eternal living history.

From Salon • Oct. 15, 2022

I guess if I were inscribing something in the forecourt of my own Delphic temple right now, it might be: Who knows me?

From Salon • Jan. 5, 2017

The two skaters were inscribing energetic loops around the tidy patch of ice across from Calgary's frumpy, circa 1911 city hall, playing hooky from classes at Mount Royal College.

From Time Magazine Archive

Old Nora was soon asleep on the straw, but not her young mistress, in whose mind figures, added together and set opposite each other, were inscribing themselves like letters of fire on a black wall.

From Anne by Woolson, Constance Fenimore