Example sentences for: incised

How can you use “incised” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • Primitive pottery is on display — including a rather naïve clay bull with an acrobat holding one horn — and finer work such as a stone pyxis (jewelry box) incised with geometric patterns and a reclining animal.

  • After adequate anesthesia with 50 mg/kg pentobarbital via intraperitoneal injection, the abdomen of each animal was prepared with 70% alcohol and incised in the midline.

  • The plainness of the writing, the persuasive speech rhythms under the almost hidden iambic pulse, manifest immense art, culminating in a last line that could be incised in stone.

  • The huge stone tablet was incised with script dictating codes governing daily life including rules on marriage, property, and inheritance rights.

  • The ancient bronzes are covered with metamorphosing animal shapes--an elephant whose trunk has turned into a dragon, and whose legs are incised with tigers ("stucco'd with quadrupeds and birds all over," as Whitman wrote of himself).


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