Inscription

//ɪnˈskɹɪpʃən//

"Inscription" in a Sentence (13 examples)

In the second place, if we do not go, someone else will read the inscription on the stone and find happiness, and we shall have lost it all.

On a nice spring day, when Jan was digging in the sandbox in the backyard, he found a small box. In the box was a shining switchblade with a mysterious inscription.

Right and wrong are two faces of the same coin. Whoever has the power decides which face gets what inscription.

After torturing a fortune-teller by tickling him to death for several hours, Christopher Columbus placed the noob toy in a treasure chest with the inscription: "To the great pirate of the future Al-Sayib: Noobs always deserve it."

The inscription reads: "Defend the children of the poor and punish the wrongdoer".

The medal had an inscription.

An epitaph is an inscription on a tomb, showing that virtues acquired by death have a retroactive effect.

The inscription carved into the rock is from the sixth century B.C.E.

The inscription carved into the rock is from the sixth century before the Common Era.

The inscription carved into the rock is from the sixth century B.C.

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The inscription of the Temple of Preah Vihear on the World Heritage list shall be without prejudice to the rights of the Kingdom of Cambodia and the Kingdom of Thailand on the demarcation works of the Joint Commission for Land Boundary (JBC) of the two countries;

He had battled like a man, and gotten a man's reward — no silver tea-pots or salvers, with flowery inscriptions setting forth his virtues and the appreciation of a genteel parish; […]

The coin bears an inscription in Latin.

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