Sentence examples for were etched from inspiring English sources
verb
To cut into a surface with an acid or other corrosive substance in order to make a pattern. Best known as a technique for creating printing plates, but also used for decoration on metal, and, in modern industry, to make circuit boards.
Micropores were etched in the nickel anode by both wet and electrochemical etching processes.
These things were etched into my brain.
Their cheeks were etched with the salty tracks of tears.
Like photographs, memories were etched in Mr. Brasse's mind.
The names Joyce, Rogers, Huddleston and McGriff were etched onto the Vietnam wall on May 12.
Final scores were etched, year after year, on the base of a 50-pound brass trophy.
Titles were etched on the tower bases: "I Do," "I Undo," "I Redo".
(How many names were etched onto that commemorative glass? So many).
They dated back to the first century, were etched in stone and miraculously contained vocal notation.
Worse still, most of these names were etched indelibly onto the camera cases.
It was very seldom that decorative motifs were etched straight onto the pewter surface.
