Example Sentences

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The team experimented with different carving and chiselling techniques and discovered fire was also an effective way to carve out the inside of the boat.

From BBC • May 25, 2024

"I had run out of energy and I was deep in my pain cave. No matter how hard I was chiselling at it, it wasn't translating to power."

From BBC • Sep. 12, 2023

We entered frosty courts by a secret hatchway and waved wooden racquets in majestic arcs, a ceremony akin to polar explorers chiselling out ice caves.

From The New Yorker • Jan. 18, 2016

In chiselling the tip, the surgeon had removed too much of the lower nose, which left me feeling as though part of my face was missing.

From The Guardian • Dec. 23, 2015

Its margin was in outline a bold pear-shaped curve, that also curved upon itself, formed by an immense chiselling of the fundamental rock.

From The Goddess of Atvatabar Being the history of the discovery of the interior world and conquest of Atvatabar by Bradshaw, William Richard