initial

In a sentence

Six example sentences with initial, each labelled with its topic.

• The engraver hid a single initial in the border, and dealers use that letter to date the print.

  Art

• Above the door the builder carved his initial into the keystone, a plain letter cut half an inch deep.

  Architecture

• Sealing wax on the letter carried only an initial, so archivists argued for decades about which cousin sent it.

  History

• The poet published under a single initial for years, and readers argued in letters about whether the writer was a woman.

  Literature

• The rookie stitched his mother's initial into the tongue of every game shoe, one small letter above the laces.

  Basketball

• The whole logo is one initial, a red letter that the founder drew on a napkin and never changed.

  Business

Found in these word lists

Each source is a published word list that contains initial. No exam board publishes an official GRE, GMAT or SAT list; GMAT words come from GRE lists and the Academic Word List.

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