Sentence examples for had incised from inspiring English sources

Once they had incised a narrow letter-box-like opening a hundred or so feet into the cliff, they began to carve downward.

Working in a style that came to be called Precisionism, Demuth painted within pencil lines that he had incised into fiberboard panels.

When I interviewed Mr. Lévi-Strauss 20 years ago, I noted that in the elevator of his Paris building, someone had incised the words "Mort aux cons" (death to idiots).

He darted about energetically, pointing his slow-dimming light up to the most exquisite of the images and tut-tutting at the graffiti of midcentury Indian visitors who had incised their names and dates and trysting notes to absent lovers on some of the walls.

In response to this uplift, rivers have incised at an average long-term incision rate of about 0.22 mm y− 1 and have progressively captured drainage areas from the chain interior.

The Colorado River has incised a 450km-long chasm that in some places is 29km wide and 1.6km deep.

The major drainage system, the Owyhee River, has incised several notable canyons in an area locally called the Rimrock Country.

A neighbor, Pijaju Peter Skipper, began to make simple works that reproduced punarrapunarra — the kinds of repetitive patterns he might once have incised on a shield.

Most celadons attributable to the Ming period have incised under the glaze floral and foliate decoration of a kind that also appears on blue painted wares.

These copper strips have been rolled with the writing on the inner side, but the stylus has incised so deeply it must have been pounded in that the text can be partly made out in relief.

Nearby a Limoges cloisonné plaque, displayed facing the wall, suggests the preciousness of parchment; on its copper back, an artist practicing his drawing skills has incised a human head — small, sharp and very much alive.