Examples of “scribe” in a Sentence

noun A person employed to write or copy documents by hand, especially historically.

• Before printing presses existed, a scribe might spend months copying a single book.
• Monks worked as scribes, copying manuscripts by candlelight.
• The ancient scribe recorded the king's decrees on clay tablets.

noun A journalist or professional writer.

• The veteran scribe wrote a column about city life for the local paper.
• A young scribe at the magazine spent the week interviewing farmers.
• The sports scribe filed his report minutes after the final whistle.

verb To write, mark, or engrave something.

• The carpenter scribed a straight line across the board before he cut it.
• Someone had scribed a tiny heart into the bark of the old oak.
• He scribed his initials into the wet concrete.