ENGRAVING in a Sentence

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33 example sentences for ENGRAVING, such as:

1. She engraved the ring in a floral pattern.
2. This type of engraving requires a delicate touch.
3. His initials were engraved on the cigarette case.
4. He once gave her a ring with a sphinx engraved on the stone.
5. Your wedding ring can be engraved with a personal inscription at no extra cost.

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 Meanings and Examples of ENGRAVING
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
engraving
 n.  practice of incising a design onto a hard, flat surface, by cutting grooves into it
Classic Sentence: (26 in 2 pages)
1  They were entertained by Vida in the parlor of Mrs. Elisha Gurrey's boarding-house, with its steel engraving of Grant at Appomattox, its basket of stereoscopic views, and its mysterious stains on the gritty carpet.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XVIII
2  In some instances, to the quick, observant eye, those linear marks, as in a veritable engraving, but afford the ground for far other delineations.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 68. The Blanket.
3  It was a daguerreotype, clear and soft as an engraving, representing Eva and her father sitting hand in hand.
Uncle Tom's Cabin By Harriet Beecher Stowe
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XV
4  Among the latter was a long engraving of a battle scene, wherein soldiers in three-cornered hats were brandishing huge drums and slender lances.
Dead Souls By Nikolai Gogol
Context  Highlight   In PART 1: CHAPTER VI
5  The sergeant turned it in his hand, held the hilt up to the sunlight to read the engraved inscription.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXVII
6  Ross Browne are pretty correct in contour; but they are wretchedly engraved.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 56. Of the Less Erroneous Pictures of Whales, and...
7  But these marks do not seem to be impressed upon the isinglass substance above mentioned, but seem to be seen through it, as if they were engraved upon the body itself.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 68. The Blanket.
8  Even his cuff-buttons were engraved with hieroglyphics, and he was more inscribed than an Egyptian obelisk.
My Antonia By Willa Cather
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1. The Shimerdas: I
9  He once gave her a ring with a sphinx engraved on the stone.
Fathers and Children By Ivan Turgenev
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VII
10  Of the four crystal glasses engraved with the count's monogram that stood before his plate, Pierre held out one at random and drank with enjoyment, gazing with ever-increasing amiability at the other guests.
War and Peace 1 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XVIII
11  At that moment Alexander turned his head and Rostov saw the beloved features that were so deeply engraved on his memory.
War and Peace 1 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER XVIII
12  Pierre rose, rubbed his eyes, and seeing the pistol with an engraved stock which Gerasim had replaced on the writing table, he remembered where he was and what lay before him that very day.
War and Peace 4 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 11: CHAPTER XXXIII
13  On his right arm was a silver plate, which, instead of bearing, as usual, the cognizance or badge of the baron to whose family he belonged, had barely the word SHERWOOD engraved upon it.
Ivanhoe By Walter Scott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLIII
14  'It has the word "Agnes" engraved on the inside,' said the woman.
Oliver Twist By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXVIII
15  After that she drew a gold ring, on which her name was engraved, off her finger, and put it upon one of his.
Grimms' Fairy Tales By Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm
Context  Highlight   In THE RAVEN
Example Sentence:
1  Wood engraving is a refinement of the technique of woodcut, the carving of a design into a block of wood.
2  This type of engraving requires a delicate touch.
3  His initials were engraved on the cigarette case.
4  Your wedding ring can be engraved with a personal inscription at no extra cost.
5  She engraved the ring in a floral pattern.
6  As she said this, she came upon a neat little house, on the door of which was a bright brass plate with the name "W. RABBIT" engraved upon it.
7  The grateful team presented the coach with a silver chain and pendant engraved with the school's motto.