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

Drafts for similar inscriptions have been found on clay tablets, written for the use of the workmen who were to incise them on stone.

From Assyrian Historiography by A. T. (Albert Ten Eyck) Olmstead

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

From Washington Post

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

The development of new pastes advanced the formation and integration of sculpture; and “paste on paste” permitted the use of incised bas-reliefs.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 1, 2025

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 few mountain cabins were incised into the steep slopes, but not many.

From "Travels with Charley in Search of America" by John Steinbeck

They settled in Philadelphia and, as a teenager, he learned engraving and earned a living incising designs for silverware firms—no doubt honing his talent for detail.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 28, 2025

“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

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

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