chisel
noun
a wedgelike tool with a cutting edge at the end of the blade, often made of steel, used for cutting or shaping wood, stone, etc.
had chiselled
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past perfectof chisel.past perfect
Used to express a completed action that took place before another specific past action occurred.
Example Sentences
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An hour later, he had chiselled all the way around the fish, leaving it encased in matrix, supported by a four-inch-tall pedestal of rock.
From The New Yorker ● Mar. 29, 2019
It is supposed to have taken five days to move the statue from the Opera del Duomo, where Michelangelo had chiselled it out, to the Palace.
From The Story of Florence by Edmund G. Gardner
It was as if grief had chiselled her features afresh out of the superfluous roundings of prosperity, wasted them into perfect sweetness, hacked them into purer refinement.
From The Late Miss Hollingford by Rosa Mulholland
The spiritual strength of restraint and inward thinking which had chiselled the Bishop’s face into a single, simple expression of will power was not to be found in the other’s face.
From The Shepherd of the North by Richard Aumerle Maher
Tears shed had hollowed the marble cheeks, and the stronger suffering that cannot weep had chiselled out great shadows beneath her brows.
From A Roman Singer by F. Marion (Francis Marion) Crawford
