Example Sentences

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Somewhere in the city, somebody is chiselling away at a statue of the 74-year-old.

From BBC • May 16, 2026

"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

He once said of the machines that “each one stamps into paper a permanent trail of imagination through keys, hammers, cloth and dye – a softer version of chiselling words into stone”.

From The Guardian • Mar. 2, 2017

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

His gaunt face was even more sallow than before, giving to the features a harder caste, chiselling the nose into more of a hook, and deepening the lines under the eyes.

From The Case and Exceptions Stories of Counsel and Clients by Hill, Frederick Trevor