Example Sentences

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LATHAM, N.Y.—Master engravers have etched the custom designs and lettering on Crane Stationery since the days of Paul Revere—who, according to company lore, was one of its first customers.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 14, 2026

Lifting the trophy in 2022, 2023 and 2024 means this group of Surrey players have etched their name into County Championship immortality.

From BBC • Sep. 20, 2024

“Palestinian writers have etched this into the Arab consciousness.”

From Seattle Times • Oct. 20, 2023

The risk that something will go drastically wrong for the mother in pregnancy, or that there will be harmful life-long health consequences, is unavoidable: fundamental evolutionary forces have etched these risks into our genes.

From Slate • May 9, 2022

In some contradictory way grief seemed to have etched on Mercy’s thin face a beauty it had never possessed.

From "The Witch of Blackbird Pond" by Elizabeth George Speare