incise

We see how the form of a finial was generated by the progressive subdivision of a square, precisely the same process by which the mason would incise and cut his stone.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 27, 2026

During high flows after storms, these boulders may be fully mobile, and as they move, they help incise the river.

From Science Daily ● Dec. 15, 2023

“These linear features mean the river is going to form in the same place every year, allowing the water to incise deeper,” Boghosian says.

From Scientific American ● Apr. 20, 2022

The local artist uses a compass to incise tightly arrayed complementary lines into large sheets of black-painted plaster topped with glistening layers of graphite and varnish; the resulting pieces appear metallic and machine-tooled.

From Washington Post ● Nov. 23, 2021

V. furrow &c. n.; flute, plow; incise, engrave, etch, bite in.

From Roget's Thesaurus of English Words and Phrases by Roget, Peter Mark

It’s just that the artist, a Zenith regular, now incises woodcut-like runes into their bodies.

From Washington Post

The Etruscans are also known for their bucchero ceramics, pottery they made with an inventive process that turns red clay into glossy black pieces, which they sometimes incised.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 18, 2026

One intriguing discovery is a deep channel incised in Antarctica's bed in an area called the Maud Subglacial Basin.

From BBC ● Jan. 15, 2026

They found that the Martian valleys' branching angles "are more similar to terrestrial valley networks incised by overland flow, than valley networks incised by re-emerging groundwater flow."

From Salon ● May 16, 2025

Stylistically, those two small children, their flatly painted bodies incised in two-dimensional profile, slide back thousands of years to the African continent and Egyptian art — product of an ancient slave culture.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 1, 2024

How does it come about that the face of a warrior is incised on the carapace of a crab?

From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan

The scratching alerts us to what will be increasingly vigorous attacks on the canvas surface—scraping, rubbing, incising fine lines—emphasizing the character of her paintings as objects, rather than representations.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 3, 2026

“Pretty much every surgeon draws their proposed incision with a marker prior to actually incising the skin.”

From Washington Post ● Mar. 16, 2023

He extended the idea to works on—or, rather, in—paper, puncturing and incising it from behind.

From The New Yorker ● Jan. 28, 2019

We can feel her pushing and pulling, scraping and incising these pictures, as if possessed.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 30, 2018

Min and the other potters continued throwing pots, incising them with designs, glazing, firing, rejecting some vessels and keeping others.

From "A Single Shard" by Linda Sue Park