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.
was chiseling
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past progressiveof chisel.past progressive
Used to describe an ongoing action or continuous state that was happening at a specific time in the past.
Example Sentences
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The union replied that Schroth was "chiseling," and offered to take the case to arbitration, but only on the money questions.
From Time Magazine Archive
"It reminds me of the fellow who was chiseling on the nose of a bomb," he said.
From Time Magazine Archive
In the dark crypts below Winterfell, a stonemason was chiseling out his father's likeness in granite.
From "A Clash of Kings" by George R.R. Martin
The son, handsome as an Adonis, was bending over some delicate carving that he was chiseling, flushed with the success of his work, yet outwardly strangely quiet and gentle.
From The Argosy Vol. 51, No. 3, March, 1891 by Charles W. Wood
A red-breasted woodpecker was chiseling out a nursery in a tall sycamore at the border of a woodland.
From Our Bird Comrades by Leander S. (Leander Sylvester) Keyser
