chiseled

Example Sentences

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“The responsibility is yours. Ours. The effort is optional. But the truth, the truth is sacred. Unalterable. Chiseled into the stone and the foundation of our republic,” he said.

From Seattle Times • May 25, 2023

“First Reformed”: Chiseled out of a lifetime of doubt, Paul Schrader’s late-in-life masterpiece throbs with an existential despair that has hardened into a taut and tormented religious drama.

From Washington Times • Dec. 17, 2018

Chiseled into the marble foyer: “You shall know the truth, and the truth shall set you free.”

From Salon • Feb. 14, 2016

Chiseled and wide-eyed, Dreymon makes it easy to root for Uhtred, which is important.

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 9, 2015

Chiseled into a sun-bleached rock cliff, they peered down at them, as they had nearly two thousand years before, Laila imagined, at caravans crossing the valley on the Silk Road.

From "A Thousand Splendid Suns" by Khaled Hosseini