How to Use incise in a Sentence

incise

verb

• The design is incised into the clay.
• The clay is incised to create a design.
• It was incised on eleven tablets, back and front, with roughly three hundred lines on each tablet.
  — Joan Acocella, The New Yorker, 7 Oct. 2019
• The leaves are simple, though sometimes deeply incised.
  — Elizabeth Waddington, Treehugger, 28 Aug. 2023
• The stone in front of the entrance is a large oval that has been carefully incised with carved connecting spirals.
  — Jane Smiley, New York Times, 20 Dec. 2016
• The Colorado River, whose wild energy incised the canyon over millions of years, is in crisis.
  — Raymond Zhong, New York Times, 6 June 2023
• There is a plication procedure and there are procedures to incise the plaque out.
  — Jeff Forward, Chron, 23 Nov. 2020
• This is a sense memory not unlike touching marks incised in wood: the promise of a different world.
  — Jordan Castro, Harper's Magazine, 5 Jan. 2024
• Of all the successes among heritage brands, few have exceeded that of the traditional boat shoe with white soles incised in a pattern of chevron grooves.
  — New York Times, 5 Feb. 2020
• All the young swans in the country were once upped each summer, the last joint of one wing cut away to render them flightless, and patterns incised in their bills or webbed feet to establish ownership.
  — Helen MacDonald, New York Times, 5 Jan. 2017
• The markings were deeply incised into dolomite rock in locations close to the burials in the Dinaledi Chamber and Hill Antechamber.
  — Kate Wong, Scientific American, 5 June 2023
• Twenty-eight days ago in Houston, Severino incised the Astros.
  — Chandler Rome, Houston Chronicle, 30 May 2018
• Ears flat, teeth bared and flanks incised with riblike arcs, the animal projects a tense ferocity far exceeding its size.
  — Roberta Smith, Martha Schwendener, Jason Farago and Will Heinrich, New York Times, 7 Sep. 2017
• Large, spiral conch shells, probably once home to ancient sea snails and now notched by hand at the apex to form a trumpet, are incised with images of warriors, hunters and the dead — as well as zoomorphic creatures that may well be crocodiles.
  — Christopher Knight, latimes.com, 18 Apr. 2018
• And thousands of noncorroding Frisbee-size discs, incised with images of human horror, will be buried all around for any inquisitive diggers to find.
  — Tim Heffernan, Popular Mechanics, 10 May 2012
• That approach begins with an incision in the inframammary fold, and the pectoralis muscle is then identified and incised, explains Smith.
  — Erin Nicole Celletti, Allure, 10 Apr. 2018
• Among other astonishments here are numerous gorgeous plasters—penciled, incised and painted.
  — Lance Esplund, WSJ, 19 June 2018

Last Updated: 29 Sep 2024