Example Sentences

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If the lips end up even a hair’s-width off, the engraver must start the entire process over.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 14, 2026

They might not be aware that those signatures go to an engraver, who uses them to decorate that year’s trophy.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 13, 2024

Artist Thomas Nast, an engraver in Morristown, New Jersey, who illustrated the front cover of Harper’s magazine for many years, played a key role in the transformation, Ayo said.

From Seattle Times • Dec. 5, 2023

The glassblower Katherine Huskie vividly remembers the tour she took with the engraver Nancy Sutcliffe in 2018.

From New York Times • Jul. 1, 2023

Over the heads of the three philosophers hangs the curtain which rises at the beginning of a theatrical performance—a device that was used by Galileo’s engraver, Stefano della Bella, for the frontispieces of plays.

From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton