chiseled

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Larry’s the pragmatic choice, but Luke is the romantic one, down to his handsome, chiseled features right out of a supermarket paperback.

From Salon • Nov. 27, 2025

If you’ve been there, then you know that the stark and hallowed message of that memorial is “Freedom Is Not Free,” words chiseled in stone.

From Salon • Jul. 15, 2025

Butler ditched the guitar and bedazzled tracksuits for a hairless, chiseled physique and piercing stare — a menacing figure that the film’s director, Denis Villeneuve, carefully measured.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 6, 2024

A marketing manager hasn’t taken the plunge yet but was saving up some money to give himself a square, chiseled jawline for his 40th.

From Slate • Sep. 21, 2024

It seemed miraculous, as if some block of stone had fallen from the peaks above and landed upright in the brush, chiseled, solitary, twelve feet high.

From "Farewell to Manzanar" by Jeanne Houston