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How to use etching in a sentence

16 example sentences · noun

Etching means the art of producing an image from a metal plate into which an image or text has been etched with acid. Example: “He donated an etching from his own collection to the new art gallery.”

More sentences with etching

  • He donated an etching from his own collection to the new art gallery.From the entry donate
  • This etching is full of fine detail.From the entry detail
  • Would you like to see my etchings?From the entry see someone's etchings
  • Let me show you my etchings.From the entry show someone one's etchings
  • Hot acid etching has been attempted to achieve microinterlocking and improve the bond between resin and Y-TZP.2015 August 25, “Effects of Acid Treatment on Dental Zirconia: An In Vitro Study”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI. From the entry microinterlocking
  • “Would you like to step inside to view my etchings?” he murmured, now kissing her brow and nose.2013, Stephen Pearsall, Focus, page 357. From the entry view someone's etchings
  • He also produced etchings, drypoints, wood engravings, lithographs and zincographs.2002, Victor Arwas, Art Nouveau: The French Aesthetic, Papadakis Publisher, →ISBN, page 202. From the entry gypsography
  • “Never wanted to show off my etchings before.1988, Ruth Seamands, Pearls in the Rain, Bristol Books, →ISBN, page 47. From the entry show someone one's etchings
  • Center and edge control of linewidth and isolated and nested lines have been the primary control metrics of interest for plasma etching .2018, William S. Levine, The Control Handbook, pages 11-15. From the entry edge control
  • The self-etch system only makes the smear layer permeable without completely removing it because of the lack of the separate etching step.2015, Zhou Xuedong, Dental Caries: Principles and Management, →ISBN, page 119. From the entry self-etch
  • Generally, MXenes were synthesized by the chemical etching method where chemical etching agents were used to etch off one of layers within ABC-type trielemental layered compounds.2020, Zhaokui Jin, Danyang Chen, Penghe Zhao, Yanyuan Wen, Mingjian Fan, Gaoxin Zhou, Yingshuai Wang, Qianjun He, “Coordination-induced…. From the entry trielemental
  • As an artist keenly attracted to Western Australian gums, specifically karris and tuarts, van Raalte prioritized imaginative figurations of trees, rather than humans, in his etchings.2018, John C. Ryan, Forest Family: Australian Culture, Art, and Trees, page 104. From the entry karri
  • Even though no obvious staining was observed in our case, contact with the vapor was still found to perform very faint etching at a submicrometric scale.2015 September 17, “Limpet Shells from the Aterian Level 8 of El Harhoura 2 Cave (Témara, Morocco): Preservation State of Crossed-Foliated…. From the entry submicrometric
  • The etching evening wind (see page 50) shows us the ornamental dialectics between the Hopperian interior and its exterior counterpart, is transcendence into the imaginary other.2008, Western Motel: Edward Hopper and Contemporary Art, page 36. From the entry Hopperian
  • For, though I don't very much want books and opera and etchings and wines and liqueurs—still, if I want them I can have them at any moment.1918 [1915], Thomas Burke, Nights in London, New York: Henry Holt and Company. From the entry apanage
  • Next, he'd be telling her that no other woman had ever understood him the way she did, and asking her to come to his hotel room to view his etchings.1991, Linda Lael Miller, Wild About Harry, page 79. From the entry view someone's etchings

Meaning of etching

  1. noun The art of producing an image from a metal plate into which an image or text has been etched with acid.
  2. noun The image created by this process.

Full definition of etching

Questions about etching in a sentence

How do you use etching in a sentence?
Etching is used as a noun. For example: “He donated an etching from his own collection to the new art gallery.”
What is a short sentence with etching?
“Let me show you my etchings.”
What does etching mean?
Etching means the art of producing an image from a metal plate into which an image or text has been etched with acid.

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