graven

[ US /ˈɡɹeɪvən/ ]
[ UK /ɡɹˈe‍ɪvən/ ]
ADJECTIVE
  1. cut or impressed into a surface
    an incised design
    engraved invitations
  2. cut into a desired shape
    sculptured representations
    graven images
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How To Use graven In A Sentence

  • Thus the sea level record is documented graven in stone as well as in the FIMR database.
  • There is no reason to suppose that history is at an end, that the current structures of authority and domination are graven in stone.
  • Stripped to the waist, the contours of their musculature were faintly graven with decades-old surgical scars.
  • He planted his watchful mo - ther as a kind of duenna over her, when - ever he rode out to pay his complin: ients tQ the lord of Gravenegg, whofe vaffal he was. Popular tales of the Germans [selected from J.C.A. Musaeus] tr. [by W. Beckford].
  • Thou hast made a graven image and Jeroboam-like wouldst have everyone else bow down before thy calf.
  • The communion of that hour will be graven on my memory while life shall last.
  • A leading European urologist in 1863 described the collection as ‘the most perfect and complete record literally graven in stone that the world possesses of calculous experience’.
  • Androcracy no less than gynecocracy has graven the furrows of care on the brow of mankind. The Dominant Sex: A Study in the Sociology of Sex Differentiation, by Mathilde and Mathias Vaerting; translated from the German by Eden and Cedar Paul
  • CZ: Ref: Lillegraven 1987 The origin of eutherian mammals Citizendium, the Citizens' Compendium - Recent changes [en]
  • The planes of his face had never looked so hard, so graven. DEVIL'S BRIDE
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