inset

I recently was walking along 41st Street near the New York Public Library in Manhattan, where the sidewalks are inset with bronze plaques highlighting the power of words.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 11, 2026

The room was re-examined after David's input, and an inset panel suspected of hiding the hole was discovered.

From BBC ● Jul. 23, 2024

The infamous Bronco chase caused one television station to rearrange coverage of an NBA Finals game, featuring the chase on the main screen and the game as an inset.

From Seattle Times ● Apr. 11, 2024

Indicating the origin of an inset from an image is minimal; providing intensity scales for grayscale, color, and pseudocolor is recommended; and annotating image details such as pixel size and exposure time are ideal.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 26, 2023

A mantelpiece bare of ornaments save for an enormous block of white marble shaped like a bear, a piece of modern sculpture in which was inset a clock.

From "And Then There Were None" by Agatha Christie

Eva Slater’s 1954 “Galaxy” insets a syncopated network of painted forms within a wooden panel, merging optical motion with material stasis.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 29, 2024

The architectural presence of Scully’s work is furthered by the scale of his largest paintings, the brick-like patterning of many works, and the physical cobbling together of multiple panels, including insets and overlaid pieces.

From Washington Post ● May 27, 2022

And the wood, of course, is perfection: Alaskan yellow cedar posts, Western red cedar beams, entry stairs with bamboo insets — with all wooden joints shaped by hand, by Makoto.

From Seattle Times ● Oct. 24, 2021

Almost inevitably there are marble floors with truffle insets, acres of Persian carpets, hard-backed settees upholstered in maroon leather, silk-shaded ginger-jar table lamps casting light on phalaenopsis orchids planted in generic tole jardinières.

From New York Times ● Mar. 23, 2020

The insets are held by the buttons and taken from their places.

From Dr. Montessori's Own Handbook by Maria Montessori

A gale nearly swamped them in rounding Cape Alexander, south of which they were forced to shore by the insetting ice-pack.

From True Tales of Arctic Heroism in the New World by Adolphus W. Greely

First builded into the etheric form in the womb of the mother, it is built up continually by the insetting of fresh materials.

From Death—and After? by Annie Wood Besant

This system of insetting has the grave inconvenience that the advertiser finds himself compelled to print as many insets as the publisher asserts that he can use.

From The Project Gutenberg Encyclopedia Volume 1 of 28 by Project Gutenberg