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
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Found in these word lists
Found in 9 published word listsAuthoritative
- Academic Keyword List (Paquot 2010)
- Academic Word List (Coxhead 2000)
- University Word List (Xue & Nation 1984)
- Business English Academic Word List
- New General Service List (Browne et al. 2013)
- Medical Academic Word List
- Nursing Word List
- Israeli Psychometric English dictionary (Campus IL / NITE)
- Science Vocabulary List
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.