chiselled

Example Sentences

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The caption said crews "carefully chiselled" out the cornered kitty and that it was now "safe and sound".

From BBC • Apr. 14, 2024

On 26 November 1922, he had held up a candle to peer through a tiny breach chiselled in a doorway sealed for three millennia.

From BBC • Nov. 25, 2022

He then took up a teaching position at the University of New Hampshire in Durham, where he quietly chiselled away at his passion, the statistical properties of prime numbers.

From Scientific American • Nov. 15, 2022

The eight marble reliefs show finely chiselled war scenes, grape vines and palm trees.

From BBC • Oct. 19, 2022

His face was chiselled and bronze, his eyes black as basalt, his curly dark hair glistening with oil.

From "Blood of Olympus" by Rick Riordan