chisel in
Example Sentences
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A razor-sharp chisel in hand, Zev Zalman “Z.Z.”
From Washington Post • Aug. 30, 2016
He assumed that whatever Wilder wrote about him “probably won’t be what I want to chisel in marble.”
From Washington Post • Nov. 28, 2015
“He died with a chisel in his hand, so they say. “I think violin makers tend to live to a ripe, old age.”
From Washington Times • Jul. 18, 2015
Police said two people had attempted to enter the Collection Lambert art museum on Sunday morning with paint spray and a chisel in their jackets.
From BBC • Apr. 18, 2011
And Pan Ku burst out of the egg, four times larger than any man today, with a hammer and chisel in his hand with which he fashioned the world.
From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan
