English example sentences with "inscription"

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.
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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.
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Right and wrong are two faces of the same coin. Whoever has the power decides which face gets what inscription.
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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."
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The inscription reads: "Defend the children of the poor and punish the wrongdoer".
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The medal had an inscription.
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An epitaph is an inscription on a tomb, showing that virtues acquired by death have a retroactive effect.
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The inscription carved into the rock is from the sixth century B.C.E.
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The inscription carved into the rock is from the sixth century before the Common Era.
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The inscription carved into the rock is from the sixth century B.C.
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The Daily Telegraph remarked that in the history of crime there had seldom been a tragedy which presented stranger features. The German name of the victim, the absence of all other motive, and the sinister inscription on the wall, all pointed to its perpetration by political refugees and revolutionists.
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The first prison I ever saw had inscribed on it CEASE TO DO EVIL: LEARN TO DO WELL; but as the inscription was on the outside, the prisoners could not read it.
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"You have a very handsome stick," I answered. "By the inscription I observed that you had not had it more than a year. But you have taken some pains to bore the head of it and pour melted lead into the hole so as to make it a formidable weapon. I argued that you would not take such precautions unless you had some danger to fear."
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Your inscription was excellent.
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The plaque bears the inscription "A letter to the future", and is intended to raise awareness about the decline of glaciers and the effects of climate change.
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On the wall hung a picture of Mary, forefinger threateningly raised, looking as though she were reading the observer the riot act. "I'm in charge here!" was the inscription added beneath.
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The inscription INRI in Latin signifies "Jesus of Nazareth, King of the Jews".
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The facsimile proved that the inscription was genuine.
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I'm reading the inscription.
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According to the inscription, it used to belong to a famous navigator.
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Boris deciphered the inscription.
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They discovered an inscription on the stone.
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Have you read the inscription?

Did you read the inscription?

This inscription seems to have been written in an already extinct language.

A touching inscription was etched into the tombstone.