Sentence examples for etched like from inspiring English sources

His work was sharply etched, like Egyptian hieroglyphs.

A passage describing tears that freeze and melt again seemed etched like hieroglyphics in an invented language that one deciphers easily through pure intuition.

A Dream Job, Just Out of Reach On a clear day in Rego Park, the Manhattan skyline is etched like an icon above Queens Boulevard.

But a few child-soldiers who had fled the militia revealed their marks, etched like little bundles of sticks into their skin (the tattoos of defecting Mayi-Mayi lose their powers).

2. Find a design you'd like etched into the iPod.

She's not a sharply etched antihero like Alex in Anthony Burgess's "Clockwork Orange," or a discontented outsider caught up in institutional politics, like Jim Dixon in Kingsley Amis's "Lucky Jim".

Therefore, with the increase of the reaction time, the top part of the ZnO NW arrays will be etched to needle-like structures by the surfactants.

The dunes on either side presented a palette of tan, butterscotch, pink and russet, and were etched with delicate fingerprint-like whorls and ridges.

The inverted cone-like droplet etched nanoholes are transformed during long-time annealing into significantly widened holes with flat bottoms and reduced depth.

The natural walls, partly peeling, had time itself etched into them; Brent liked the effect and refused to paint over these traces.

The Mission Valley Viaduct was recognized by the American Society of Civil Engineers ASCEE) as the "Outstanding Civil Engineering Project for 1973 in the San Diego Area"; it was designed to match the close-by Mission San Diego de Alcalá with its columns that look similar to cathedral windows, and arch-like shapes etched into the textured concrete.