etched in stone
Example Sentences
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"I don't think that many people believe that those numbers are etched in stone just yet," he says.
From BBC ● Apr. 4, 2025
“I have nothing that’s truly etched in stone, except what is truly right,” Garvey said of his own ideology at the late-January debate hosted by Politico.
From Slate ● Feb. 5, 2024
A society of isolated yetis lives high in the snowy mountains, and their community has a set of strict laws that are etched in stone, literally.
From New York Times ● Feb. 2, 2024
That earthiness helps make a song that was already part of the modern folk pantheon seem eternal, as if etched in stone.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 30, 2023
Butler’s features could have been etched in stone.
From "Artemis Fowl" by Eoin Colfer
