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
“His is but one story of many whose names are etched in stone on our memorial.”
From Seattle Times • May 26, 2024
“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
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
