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Example Sentences
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“I don’t know…” Aunt Melissa looks between me, Lily, and Dad, her face etched with indecision.
From Literature
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Over by a large fireplace was an axe with threads of bronze etched around the handle.
From Literature
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In a makeshift boxing ring etched into the sand between the tens of displaced Palestinians in southern Gaza, a dozen young girls warmed up before delivering fierce blows at their coach's command.
From Barron's
The Royal Australian Mint defended the portrait, saying: "Our coin images don't always capture the full beauty of a design once it's etched in metal."
From BBC
But he could feel the question-new of it inside his head, almost as if the dragon were using its ferocious little claws to etch a question mark into his brain.
From Literature
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