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

"One way you can think about how rivers incise long term -- you need to be able to move sediment, and once you cross over some threshold, you can incise the river," Carr said.

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

The isthmus is entitled to absolutely no consideration whatever in deciding the location at which to incise so vital a structure as the trachea.

From Bronchoscopy and Esophagoscopy A Manual of Peroral Endoscopy and Laryngeal Surgery by Chevalier Jackson

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

A sculpture of vertical folds incised by a tapering spiral.

From "All the Light We Cannot See" by Anthony Doerr

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

Meyers’s and Price’s styles emphasize tight detail — Meyers often drawing undulating motifs with ink and Price incising abstract photographs with an X-ACTO knife.

From Washington Post ● Feb. 27, 2020

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

From The New Yorker ● Jan. 28, 2019

Coinciding with an exhibition of Tintoretto drawings at the Morgan Library & Museum, this painting has Tintoretto’s signature dramatic lighting, but with modern details like incising done with the stick-end of the paintbrush.

From New York Times ● Oct. 25, 2018

Having finally selected a design, Min began incising it.

From "A Single Shard" by Linda Sue Park