chiselled
Example Sentences
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India's 'Prince' may have chiselled, film star-like good looks, but he will be prepared to fight if the crown slips.
From BBC • Jun. 16, 2025
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
He did not go on to university but wrote newspaper columns, books and scripts, composed songs, and acted in films, before moving into television, helped by his chiselled, good looks.
From BBC • Jun. 30, 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
