How to Use wafer in a Sentence

wafer

1 of 2 noun
  • Too much, and the wafers will be pushed apart.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 11 Aug. 2024
  • Those two things have to match, not your wafer size.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 6 May 2026
  • His mother was a wafer so long.
    — Hallie Milstein, Southern Living, 2 May 2026
  • These wafers snap off when tapped with a hammer.
    — Tim Carter, Hartford Courant, 3 Jan. 2026
  • To do this, the wafers are first diced into chips.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 22 Sep. 2025
  • Each cut leaves a thin wafer of wood that’s about 1/8 inch, or less, wide.
    — Tim Carter, Hartford Courant, 3 Jan. 2026
  • Cerebras leaves the wafer intact.
    — Jon Markman, Forbes.com, 14 May 2026
  • This layered pie starts with a chocolate wafer cookie crust.
    — Kimberly Holland, Southern Living, 25 Oct. 2025
  • Fresh bananas and a crisp vanilla wafer crust will leave you wanting more.
    — Kimberly Holland, Southern Living, 12 Apr. 2026
  • The router is used to create a smooth face inside the mortise where the wafers used to be.
    — Tim Carter, Hartford Courant, 3 Jan. 2026
  • The wafers inside KitKat candies are made with wheat flour.
    — Endia Fontanez, AZCentral.com, 25 Oct. 2025
  • Smaller wafers means fab equipment can be much smaller and way cheaper.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 6 May 2026
  • My mother would give her an apple, some wafers, or whatever was left over from dessert.
    — Annie Ernaux, New Yorker, 1 June 2026
  • Most chips carve a wafer into hundreds of separate dies.
    — Jon Markman, Forbes.com, 14 May 2026
  • The initial links between the wafers are weak hydrogen bonds.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 11 Aug. 2024
  • That’s then placed in contact with a specially prepared wafer.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 21 Jan. 2020
  • In the worst cases, the coupling was still around 60 percent across the whole wafer.
    — Roel Baets, IEEE Spectrum, 8 Apr. 2023
  • Top with remaining vanilla wafer crumbs.
    — Sarah Martens, Better Homes & Gardens, 28 Apr. 2026
  • The recipe calls for homemade vanilla pudding and vanilla wafers.
    — Jillian Frankel, People.com, 27 Aug. 2025
  • This speed allows crystal films to form on a silicon wafer in a single step.
    — Sujita Sinha, Interesting Engineering, 24 Nov. 2025
  • Sulfuric acid, a byproduct of sulfur, cleans chip wafers.
    — Evelyn Cheng, CNBC, 31 Mar. 2026
  • The wafer was then capped with low-melting-point indium and sealed in a quartz cavity.
    — Neetika Walter, Interesting Engineering, 4 Aug. 2025
  • Imec Hybrid bonding starts with two wafers or a chip and a wafer facing each other.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 11 Aug. 2024
  • The wafers are pressed together to form an initial bond between the oxides.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 11 Aug. 2024
  • There's no more nostalgic bite than that first vanilla wafer drowning in creamy pudding.
    — Tara Massouleh McCay, Southern Living, 30 Mar. 2026
  • They’re made with the kind of care that shows in every delicate, pastel-colored wafer.
    — Ryan Brennan, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 1 Apr. 2026
  • For extra credit, use our homemade chocolate wafer recipe instead of store-bought.
    — Jenna Sims, Southern Living, 16 May 2026
  • Once dies have been cut from their source wafer and tested, there’s less that can be done to improve their readiness for bonding.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 11 Aug. 2024
  • It’s built on a silicon wafer, and the first stratum is made up of silicon logic.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 6 July 2017
  • To maintain stability, fabs blow helium gas on the backs of wafers to draw heat away.
    — Deni Ellis Béchard, Scientific American, 18 Mar. 2026

wafer

2 of 2 verb
  • Layer half of vanilla wafers in an 8-inch square baking dish.
    — Rebecca Lang, Southern Living, 20 Oct. 2023
  • Instead, the lasers on the wafer are undercut so that they are attached to the source wafer only by small tethers.
    — Roel Baets, IEEE Spectrum, 8 Apr. 2023
  • This is a horror movie purposefully set up to court both types of viewers, and very much wants to have its communion wafer and eat it, too.
    — David Fear, Rolling Stone, 20 Mar. 2024
  • Historic wafering iron designs indicate that, like today, the irons could be given as wedding gifts.
    — Kat Eschner, Smithsonian, 29 June 2017
  • The bottom of a L’industrie pie — wafer thin but still somehow pliable — is a miracle of engineering.
    — New York Times, 17 Dec. 2021
  • This is often called polycrystalline silicon, in contrast to the monocrystalline (single crystals) wafers that semiconductors are made on.
    — Willy Shih, Forbes, 13 Oct. 2024
  • But a traditional creamy trifle will feature layers of bananas, a vanilla pudding or custard, Nilla wafers (daring heretics might use sponge cake) and then whipped cream or even a meringue.
    — Cnn.com Wire Service, The Mercury News, 26 Sep. 2024
  • Lam Research supplies wafer fabrication equipment that is used to manufacture semiconductor chips.
    — Josh Brown,sean Russo, CNBC, 13 Apr. 2026
  • The team evaluated both cell types using an I-V tester, wafer metrology system, transmission electron microscopy, and simulation software.
    — Bojan Stojkovski, Interesting Engineering, 14 Feb. 2026
  • Highly energy efficient and often wafer thin, OLEDs are the technology of choice in high-end cellphone displays and televisions.
    — New York Times, 27 Mar. 2022

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