chiselled

Example Sentences

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"But I think I'd remember if you'd done something odd," reassures Archer, all chiselled good looks and friendly bonhomie.

From BBC • May 8, 2025

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

From BBC • Apr. 14, 2024

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

Iraqi sculptor Khaled Al-Abadi's carefully chiselled engravings of lions, chariots, and birds decorate his Mosul workshop - the fulfilment of a dream to "to recreate what was demolished" during turbulent years of war.

From Reuters • Sep. 23, 2022

The walls were made of rough-hewn stone blocks chiselled with Greek inscriptions - thousands and thousands of them, like graffiti.

From "Blood of Olympus" by Rick Riordan