What is "etched"

Usage examples of "etched".

His eyes were red-rimmed, the lines that bracketed his prominent canines were deeply etched into his weathered skin.

Erosion had produced cracks and etched crazy cobweblike designs everywhere.

The statue was etched from some iridescent metal, or else enspelled, so dawn light scintillated across the surface like a rainbow.

A line of flamingos etched across the sky, and they passed one of the weed-grown conch boats wallowing along, exchanging hails with the island fisherman.

He noticed every detail as if in a dream: distant, yet with that peculiar intensification that sometimes occurs in dream, every detail etched into his brain with jewellike clarity.

It has moved out because the karmas of our destiny, etched into the fabric of that human mind itself, have impelled it to do so.

Its two cabins were squalid, its galley unspeakable, the woodwork of its wheelhouse crudely etched with drawings of the obscenest kind.

Miranda was especially excited when she found two very distinct petroglyphs where an ancient storyteller had once etched images of hunters and their quarry onto the surface of rocks.

Even the three giant stairways were barely visible, as a faint Y etched on the dome that closed the world.

But while he pondered, they came to the steel grille, etched blackly in the torches beyond, and the body of Shukeli, still slumped against the bars in a curdled welter of crimson.

Tamhas had railed and shouted and stomped up and down the length of the audience chamber, thrown a cathedra chair through a window, snapped the etched and inletted blade of a gold-hilted dress dagger by trying to drive it into the top of a polished oaken table.

It had been some time since the disappearance of Lady Frances Carfax, but the adventure remained etched in my mind.

The portraits in the book are indelibly etched in our minds: Ruth's hardworking, laughing father whose Chaplinesque humor and skill at mime carried the family through its darkest, most impoverished times.

Caralie reached out and touched the name etched in the stone, silently telling the sister she'd loved a final goodbye.

At every turn, some new and wondrous object appeared to hand—gold cups and plates ornamented with jewels, silver-gilt candlesticks, ornate nefs, porringers, cast-gold aquamaniles shaped like lions with their tails arched across their backs to form handles, all manner of tableware, carven chairs inlaid with ivory or gold and silver wire, richly chased and engraved caskets filled with jewels, ropes of pearls, bracelets, rings, torques, gold-mounted cameos and intaglios, fine chains and gem-crusted girdles, shirts of mail, gauntlets, helms, greaves, cuirasses floridly engraved, etched and embossed with gold or silver—an entire armory—and weapons of an unknown metal, honed spite-sharp.