How to Use wafer in a Sentence

wafer

noun
  • Catholics are taught to believe that the wafer is Christ’s body and the wine his blood.
    Tracy Wilkinson Staff Writer, Los Angeles Times, 27 June 2021
  • The wafer then moves over and the light is projected again.
    Matthew Hutson, The New Yorker, 20 Aug. 2021
  • Dark brown sugar: Adds light notes of caramel and molasses to the wafers.
    Joy Howard, Southern Living, 27 Nov. 2023
  • As a consequence, the part of the mask imaged will be much smaller on the wafer.
    IEEE Spectrum, 29 July 2023
  • On the Margin Is this enough in a sector where margins can be wafer thin at the best of times?
    Trevor Clawson, Forbes, 25 Sep. 2021
  • Processing a wafer takes thousands of steps and up to two months.
    New York Times, 8 Apr. 2022
  • So can cutting down on the number of faulty chips per wafer, Benyon said.
    Washington Post, 7 July 2021
  • My niece Leah stuck the wafer into the sticky, gooey jam and sucked all of the jam off before going for a second dip.
    Alex Beggs, Bon Appétit, 14 Oct. 2020
  • Then the bottom of the original wafer (now on top) is polished away until the ends of the nano-TSVs are exposed.
    IEEE Spectrum, 8 June 2023
  • Crunched the wafer-ice on the pot-holes, Somebody wistfully twisted the bellows wheel.
    Michael Brendan Dougherty, National Review, 25 Dec. 2020
  • Brown butter imparts a nutty flavor to the wafer crust.
    John Somerall, Southern Living, 24 Nov. 2023
  • In another, a machine lifts a pack of wafers to the ceiling and moves it around the facility.
    Eric Cheung, CNN, 22 Mar. 2024
  • The wafers come in eight flavors, including, for some reason, clove.
    Christopher Reynolds, Los Angeles Times, 1 Nov. 2023
  • The substrate is polyimide, a kind of plastic, rather than a silicon wafer.
    Gregory Barber, Wired, 21 July 2021
  • Those are the rough proportions of one wafer of an Oreo cookie, Desch noted.
    NBC News, 18 Mar. 2021
  • Each wafer is then chopped up to make lots of individual chips.
    Will Knight, Wired, 30 Aug. 2021
  • The ice cream’s strong banana flavor is from banana purée, the vanilla wafer cookie bites are soft and chewy, and there are even some bonus threads of caramel.
    Alex Beggs, Bon Appétit, 26 Aug. 2022
  • Think outside the wafer by making this cake roll from Diethood.
    People Staff, Peoplemag, 16 Nov. 2023
  • The honey stuck to the wafer in such a perfect way that the blunder turned into a deliciously sinful treat.
    Silvia Marchetti, CNN, 22 Oct. 2022
  • Thin Mints: Chocolate wafers dipped in mint-chocolate coating.
    Victoria Moorwood, The Enquirer, 11 Jan. 2024
  • Filipino mango float to British tea cake to that nostalgic banana pudding on the back of the Nilla wafer box.
    Julia O'Malley, Anchorage Daily News, 4 Mar. 2021
  • This adds to the cost and complexity of the manufacturing process and limits the number of lasers that can be made on one wafer.
    Timothy B. Lee, Ars Technica, 15 Oct. 2020
  • This no-bake treat starts with a package of vanilla wafers, which are crunched up so they can be infused with the flavor of bourbon and toasted pecans.
    Southern Living Editors, Southern Living, 10 Nov. 2023
  • Hprobe was showing their latest MRAM wafer test equipment.
    Tom Coughlin, Forbes, 27 Dec. 2021
  • Among the logos to be included on the chocolate wafer of the cookie is the Heat’s iconic flaming basketball.
    Ira Winderman, sun-sentinel.com, 10 Mar. 2021
  • The classic chocolate Oreo cookies sandwich a layer of chocolate creme and wafer crumbs.
    Sabrina Weiss, Peoplemag, 6 Mar. 2024
  • Freeze until firm, then press lines into the ice cream with a skewer and sprinkle the lines with chocolate wafer crumbs to resemble grill marks.
    Alesandra Dubin, Good Housekeeping, 21 Feb. 2023
  • To limit these distortions, the researchers linked the polymer to a sheet of quartz before stamping it down on the wafer covered with gate electrodes.
    John Timmer, Ars Technica, 21 Mar. 2023
  • Photolithography is key to chip makers, which use light to draw a checkerboard of lines on a silicon wafer.
    WSJ, 17 July 2021
  • According to Hurt, the part of the cake that burns away is wafer paper, while the image that is revealed is made from an edible image that is more like a chewy fondant.
    Julia Gomez, USA TODAY, 6 Feb. 2024

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