How to Use etch in a Sentence
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This week will remain etched on my heart.
—Etan Vlessing, HollywoodReporter, 14 Apr. 2026
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Concern was etched in her voice and guilt rang through me.
—Michael Nied, PEOPLE, 27 Oct. 2025
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Even the books on the shelves have titles etched on the spines.
—Grace Edquist, Vogue, 21 Feb. 2023
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Because of that, Lewis’s place on the team is etched in stone.
—Devin Bradshaw, Mercury News, 3 Mar. 2026
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For many of us, their names will be etched in our hearts forever.
—Kenety S. Gee, Twin Cities, 18 Feb. 2026
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The name gets etched onto the bottom.
—Michael Howes, Baltimore Sun, 25 Apr. 2026
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The rear of the head stone is etched with the 29 names of the fallen.
—Linda McIntosh, San Diego Union-Tribune, 27 Feb. 2024
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Acids like lemon juice, wine, and tomato sauce can etch or stain surfaces.
—Brandee Gruener, Southern Living, 4 Sep. 2025
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Adidas cleats that are etched in the light blue and white hues of his country.
—Jack Bantock, CNN Money, 22 June 2026
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Beniers didn’t etch his name on the box score Thursday night.
—Conor Ryan, BostonGlobe.com, 13 Jan. 2023
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Niemela adds that the tiles must not shift, and the grout must be acid-etched before painting.
—Lee Wallender, The Spruce, 5 Jan. 2026
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The face of a lion is etched along her right forefinger in fine inky lines.
—Chioma Nnadi, Vogue, 8 Mar. 2023
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Hard water leaves white deposits on glass that can etch the surface.
—Mary Marlowe Leverette, Southern Living, 12 June 2026
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To build this charming house, simply etch and carve two windows and a door.
—Sarah Martens, Better Homes & Gardens, 2 Oct. 2023
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Once the etching occurs, it cannot be removed.
—Mary Marlowe Leverette, Southern Living, 12 June 2026
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With the tip of the craft knife, etch out a thin smile by scraping away just the top layer of rind.
—Blair Donovan, Country Living, 12 Aug. 2022
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The movie took place in a galaxy far, far away, but it was etched into my young mind for good.
—Brijesh Prabhakar, Forbes.com, 11 June 2026
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Quotes from survivors and witnesses are etched along its edges.
—Christina Ray Stanton, New York Daily News, 25 Mar. 2026
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This call by the Bulls crew is forever etched into my brain.
—Zach Harper, New York Times, 7 May 2026
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The only way to fix etching is by buffing the scratches out.
—Brandee Gruener, Southern Living, 4 Sep. 2025
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To create a stamp, etch a carving block or potato with the design of your choice.
—Sarah Martens, Better Homes & Gardens, 23 Jan. 2023
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The purpose for the molds was to etch the siblings’ facial features in stone.
—The Salt Lake Tribune, 26 Sep. 2022
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Kershaw, with a chance to etch one last line on his plaque in Cooperstown.
—Tyler Kepner, New York Times, 4 Mar. 2026
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People stood solemnly in line with looks of exhaustion etched on their faces.
—The Arizona Republic, 11 May 2023
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These artists have stood the test of time, and their beauty is etched into our memories.
—Shelby Stewart, Essence, 12 Mar. 2024
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But traces of their bond still remain, etched into many of their possessions.
—Issy Ronald, CNN, 1 June 2023
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Hearing him laugh will be etched into my mind forever.
—Jack Beresford, MSNBC Newsweek, 6 Oct. 2025
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Does this mean the Canon must be etched in stone, never to change for all history?
—Big Think, 6 Nov. 2025
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Both names are etched on his tombstone, though his real name only in small print at the bottom.
—CBS News, 9 Oct. 2023
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But the defects weren’t cavities like those etched to record data.
—Damien Pine, Scientific American, 19 Feb. 2026
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If your floors have deep scuffs or scratches, start by using etch remover.
—Emma Bazilian, House Beautiful, 28 May 2020
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For a more subtle contrast, etch to remove the skin and some of the flesh without carving all the way through.
—Sarah Martens, Better Homes & Gardens, 2 Oct. 2023
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To add details, etch swooping lines around the holes by scraping away the pumpkin's outer skin to create contrast.
—Maria Sabella, Better Homes & Gardens, 15 Sep. 2025
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The firm previously worked to bring the Nashville staple, etch, to Franklin.
—Gabrielle Chenault, The Tennessean, 2 July 2025
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These systems use ultra-short wavelengths of light to etch circuit patterns, enabling chips that are smaller, faster, and more efficient.
—Trefis Team, Forbes.com, 17 July 2025
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All the fractured parts in each group were bonded to their relevant apical parts by an etch and rinse bonding system and a flowable composite resin.
—Seriously Science, Discover Magazine, 2 Dec. 2013
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Choose an ammonia-free cleaner since ammonia can corrode metals and potentially etch glass over time.
—Brandee Gruener, Southern Living, 24 Sep. 2025
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But scene by scene, Jacobs and his leads etch a tangle of compelling, persuasive dynamics and backstories.
—Jon Frosch, The Hollywood Reporter, 9 Sep. 2023
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Both etch sentences as precise as an Olympic skater’s figure eights; both wield their scalpels for insight beneath the baggy skin of domesticity.
—Hamilton Cain, Washington Post, 8 July 2023
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Extreme ultraviolet light is then beamed through the plate and onto the wafer, printing a design on it before it’s bathed in chemicals to etch along the pattern.
—Virginia Heffernan, WIRED, 21 Mar. 2023
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There seems to be a limitless number of products available to clean, strip, etch, degrease, and brighten various surfaces around the home, yard, and workshop.
—Popular Mechanics, 6 Oct. 2020
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Nanoimprint lithography stamps the chip’s design directly onto a silicon wafer, while EUV instead uses light to etch circuit patterns.
—Lionel Lim, Fortune Asia, 29 Jan. 2024
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Working with toolmakers, TSMC has used ever-smaller wavelengths to pattern and etch away silicon, shrinking the features left behind on its wafers.
—IEEE Spectrum, 3 Sep. 2024
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Its range of offerings includes deposition, etch, cleaning, inspection, ion implantation, and advanced packaging.
—Trefis Team, Forbes.com, 30 Jan. 2026
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Packing in the Data To create the devices, the researchers blast a disc of glass with intense femtosecond laser pulses, creating nanoscale etch marks within its structure that alter the polarization of light beams.
—Nathaniel Scharping, Discover Magazine, 19 Feb. 2016
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The company makes the high-tech picks and shovels—etch and deposition tools—needed to churn out high-bandwidth memory and advanced logic chips, both of which are in hot demand as AI workloads get more power-hungry.
—John Buckingham, Forbes, 28 Feb. 2025
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This represents a significant tailwind for Lam Research’s electroplating and TSV etch tools.
—Sasirekha Subramanian, Forbes.com, 29 Jan. 2026
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For marble and natural stone, Flores recommends using Swiffer's dry cloths and a pH-neutral cleanser specifically formulated to keep polished stone etch-free.
—Louise Parks, Martha Stewart, 29 Apr. 2026
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Ichor Holdings — Shares soared 37% to a 52-week high after the maker of semiconductor equipment parts said strong demand for etch and deposition intensity services fueled a fourth-quarter earnings beat.
—Scott Schnipper, CNBC, 10 Feb. 2026
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Lam Research is a $130 billion company that specializes in areas of the chip manufacturing process like etch tools that precisely remove material layers from a wafer as well as wet and plasma-based cleaning equipment to remove contaminants.
—Josh Brown,sean Russo, CNBC, 11 Aug. 2025
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