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

One side is unfinished, and is most valuable as showing the facility with which the sharp graving tools were employed to incise the marble.

From Donatello, by Lord Balcarres by David Lindsay, Earl of Crawford

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

Carved from wood as a durable, 3-foot-tall, totem-like column, it was then wrapped in linen, covered with smooth plaster and incised and painted.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 1, 2024

That huge horn with its bands of old gold, incised with ancient rimes ... had Mance Rayder lied to him, or was Tormund lying now?

From "A Dance with Dragons" by George R. R. Martin

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

Other harmful or nonmedical procedures, including piercing, pricking, incising, scraping and cauterization.

From New York Times ● May 24, 2019

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

With an incising awl, he inscribed the leather-hard clay—a simple chrysanthemum design, far cruder than much of the elaborate incision work for which the potters of Ch’ulp’o were known.

From "A Single Shard" by Linda Sue Park