chiseler

Example Sentences

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Instead of being solo artisans, sculptors worked in teams, with talented masters overseeing large crews of rookie chiselers and other assistants.

From Science Magazine • Nov. 16, 2021

From the wealthiest to the poorest, it creates a world of chiselers, not productive citizens.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 6, 2016

She enlisted one of Florence’s last jewelry chiselers to render the strokable fur texture on the 18K-gold Sleeping Fox ring, including the small patches between the spinels and rich garnets that form his voluptuous tail.

From Architectural Digest • Oct. 7, 2014

“The surveys showed that society thought of us as bullies, destroyers, and debt chiselers, always getting what we wanted,” says Abreu.

From Newsweek • Apr. 29, 2013

I tried to peddle your contract but the chiselers had this excuse and that for wanting you to discount it.

From Epistles from Pap: Letters from the man known as 'The Will Rogers of Indiana' by Hay, Douglas (Douglas N.)