inlaid

Definition of inlaidnext
past tense of inlay

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of Synonyms for inlaid
Verb
  • Will inset cabinets increase the value of your home?
    Brandee Gruener, Southern Living, 25 Apr. 2026
  • The gourmet kitchen has inset cabinetry, beam ceilings, an expansive island, a professional six-burner dual-oven range, dual dishwashers and a custom pizza oven.
    Kaitlyn Keegan, Hartford Courant, 28 Feb. 2026
Verb
  • Desperate to save them, records show, doctors inserted tubes into their airways and hooked them up to IVs.
    Duaa Eldeib, CNN Money, 8 May 2026
  • Environmentalists are rejecting California’s implementation of its landmark single-use plastic law taking, claiming regulators inserted loopholes favoring the plastic industry.
    Susanne Rust Follow, Los Angeles Times, 7 May 2026
Verb
  • Retirement advocates see any cap or cut in Social Security benefits as a slippery slope.
    Daniel de Visé, USA Today, 4 May 2026
  • To temper those cuts in California, other groups proposed a new tax on billionaires that appears poised to qualify for the November ballot.
    Taryn Luna, Los Angeles Times, 3 May 2026
Verb
  • After the prayers, the vet techs went behind the whale and injected it with a long syringe.
    Robin Romm, The Atlantic, 2 May 2026
  • Embalming, the process of slowing down a body’s decomposition, involves known carcinogens like formaldehyde that get injected into veins to preserve the body for viewing and services.
    Dorany Pineda, Fortune, 2 May 2026
Verb
  • Part of Ayers’s respect in the hip-hop community is derived from his willingness to work with the artists who’ve sampled and interpolated him.
    Andre Gee, Rolling Stone, 6 Mar. 2025
  • The song has been sampled or interpolated over 150 times, according to Whosampled.
    Bethy Squires, Vulture, 5 Mar. 2025
Verb
  • Hanging on the walls are stills from the film and TV projects produced by OBB—a docuseries about Shaq mentoring entrepreneurs, Sabrina Carpenter’s holiday special—interspersed with marketing images for the brand, shot onsite.
    Lucy Feldman, Time, 6 May 2026
  • Sparingly interspersed among the island narrative are flashbacks to another island, colonized long ago.
    Ben Travers, IndieWire, 4 May 2026
Verb
  • For most of Mira’s life, Patrick worked in product management at a large tech company.
    Anna Wiener, New Yorker, 4 May 2026
  • That worked in Lake Waco in Texas, for example, and along a rocky reef at Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore in Michigan.
    Dinah Voyles Pulver, USA Today, 3 May 2026
Verb
  • Hudson interrupted Belichick's CBS interview when interviewer Tony Dokoupil asked how the two met, and, CBS said, interjected several other times throughout.
    Alex Apatoff, PEOPLE, 27 Apr. 2026
  • Roseman interjected with an important part when evaluating prospects.
    Zach Berman, New York Times, 25 Apr. 2026
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“Inlaid.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/inlaid. Accessed 10 May. 2026.

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