Examples of “etch” in a Sentence

verb To cut a design or pattern into a hard surface using acid, a needle, or another sharp tool.

• The artist etched a portrait onto a copper plate before printing it.
• Engineers etch tiny circuits onto silicon chips.

verb To fix something firmly and permanently in someone's memory.

• That image of the burning building is etched into my mind.
• The speech etched itself into the nation's memory.