Example Sentences

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A woman had chiseled her on a debt.

From New York Times • Oct. 28, 2012

Mario Cuomo’s father, Andrea Cuomo, had chiseled castle-shaped statues out of stone for his children and grandchildren, and at least a couple of the statues remained behind after the Cuomos left Queens.

From New York Times • May 3, 2010

He had chiseled features and those Prada eyeglasses architects favor.

From New York Times • Apr. 30, 2010

The companies charged that foreign producers, mostly from Western Europe, had chiseled their way into a 19% import share of the U.S. market by selling government subsidized steel to American buyers.

From Time Magazine Archive

She had chiseled quite a bit of money from her father to go away to college to see what it was like “out there.”

From "A Confederacy of Dunces" by John Kennedy Toole