Examples of wafer in a Sentence
Washington Post, 6 Dec. 2023
This no-bake treat starts with a package of vanilla wafers, which are crunched up so they can be infused with the flavor of bourbon and toasted pecans.
—Southern Living Editors, Southern Living, 10 Nov. 2023
About $250,000 worth of the chocolate wafer candies has basically been held hostage, The New York Times reported on Wednesday.
—Tori Latham, Robb Report, 8 Nov. 2023
Top bars with banana rounds and vanilla wafers as desired; serve immediately.
—John Somerall, Southern Living, 24 Nov. 2023
Think outside the wafer by making this cake roll from Diethood.
—People Staff, Peoplemag, 16 Nov. 2023
The wafers come in eight flavors, including, for some reason, clove.
—Christopher Reynolds, Los Angeles Times, 1 Nov. 2023
And even as other economies like South Korea and Taiwan built up their own chip industries, Singapore started to expand into design and wafer fabrication.
—Bylionel Lim, Fortune, 1 Nov. 2023
GaAs wafers are used in RF equipment, LEDs, and—perhaps most prominently—solar cells.
—IEEE Spectrum, 10 Oct. 2023
Southern Living Test Kitchen, Southern Living, 22 Nov. 2023
Tips for the Best Banana Pudding Cheesecake For the best banana pudding cheesecake, keep these tips in mind:
Use the crust: Press the crust lightly up the sides of the pan to give the ring of vanilla wafers stability.
—Southern Living Test Kitchen, Southern Living, 22 Nov. 2023
Layer half of vanilla wafers in an 8-inch square baking dish.
—Rebecca Lang, Southern Living, 20 Oct. 2023
The blue-and-white Intel theme is only the start of this nifty mod, which resembles an Intel CPU wafer just off the fab.
—John Burek, PCMAG, 5 June 2023
Instead, the lasers on the wafer are undercut so that they are attached to the source wafer only by small tethers.
—Roel Baets, IEEE Spectrum, 8 Apr. 2023
LAM Research, a company that supplies wafer fabrication equipment and related services to the semiconductor industry saw its last stock split in 2020.
—Trefis Team, Forbes, 9 June 2022
Highly energy efficient and often wafer thin, OLEDs are the technology of choice in high-end cellphone displays and televisions.
—New York Times, 27 Mar. 2022
The bottom of a L’industrie pie — wafer thin but still somehow pliable — is a miracle of engineering.
—New York Times, 17 Dec. 2021
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Word History
Noun
Middle English, from Anglo-French wafer, walfre, of Germanic origin; akin to Middle Dutch wafele waffle
Noun
14th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1a
Verb
1748, in the meaning defined at sense 1
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“Wafer.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/wafer. Accessed 11 Dec. 2023.
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