incised
adjective
in·cised
| \ in-ˈsīzd
, -ˈsīst\
, -ˈsīst\
Definition of incised
2
: having a margin that is deeply and sharply notched
an incised leaf
Examples of incised in a Sentence
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An autopsy determined that Burke died of multiple stab and incised wounds. — Erin Mccarthy, Philly.com, "Woman charged in gruesome slaying of her grandmother in their Ambler home," 5 June 2018 Archaeologists have found 27 incised stones that they have been marked intentionally for a greater purpose. — David Grossman, Popular Mechanics, "This Could Be Neanderthal Art," 3 May 2018 Other wooden objects are gilded to reflect light or wrapped in incised gold sheets, while carved and painted alabaster, a soft and translucent stone that absorbs light in a gentle glow, is common. — Christopher Knight, latimes.com, "How good is the King Tut exhibition? An art critic weighs in," 29 Mar. 2018 Look for the incised Wedgewood mark on the base to ensure authenticity. — Brenda Yenke, cleveland.com, "Tracking the market for what's collectible: Yenke Peddler antiques," 5 Apr. 2018 The lacy delicacy of his incised lines is all the more poignant for the in-the-street scrappiness of the detritus in which it is embedded. — David Pagel, latimes.com, "'Mark Bradford: New Works' at Hauser & Wirth," 24 Mar. 2018 For that piece, Fonseca, who arrived in New York in 1958 after dropping out of an architecture program in Montevideo, made a small wooden frame filled with cement and divided the piece with incised lines into seven irregular vertical stripes. — Will Heinrich, New York Times, "At the Noguchi Museum, Worlds of Stone Fuse the Physical and the Dreamlike," 1 Feb. 2018 Their pale fluctuating grids are made from incised wallboard whose tiny squares have been stained different shades of gray. — Roberta Smith, New York Times, "‘Midtown’: That Chair’s Charming, but Can I Sit in It?," 25 May 2017 Dr. Kronauer said his students and postdoctoral fellows designed everything from scratch: computer algorithms, tracking devices, the incised mazes. — Natalie Angier, New York Times, "Gene-Modified Ants Shed Light on How Societies Are Organized," 23 Jan. 2017These example sentences are selected automatically from various online news sources to reflect current usage of the word 'incised.' Views expressed in the examples do not represent the opinion of Merriam-Webster or its editors. Send us feedback.
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