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Example Sentences

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"It also has a striking cross-cultural element. The star pointers carry their standard names in Persian, alongside Sanskrit equivalents etched in the Devanagari script."

From BBC • Apr. 25, 2026

Writer Douglas Kearney illuminates it strikingly in the curatorial statement etched into a back wall in “sister dreamer”: “… it’s the sacred phenomenon of luxe space that remembers without memorializing, celebrates without eulogizing. An anti-tomb.”

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 14, 2026

Sixty-six years after his birth, hardship is etched in the faces of those queueing for food.

From Barron's • Apr. 14, 2026

A geotubes supporter, he owns two other homes, including a guesthouse where John Steinbeck, who wrote much of “East of Eden” in Sconset, once etched his name on a windowpane.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 8, 2026

I glanced up at Dad, whose face was etched with discomfort, but I decided to ask anyway, because this was part of me, too.

From "The Science of Breakable Things" by Tae Keller