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 chiselling
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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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"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
Spirits were high and the mud was deep, but we who were there had the feeling that history was chiselling that night's date into her book of ages.
From "And they thought we wouldn't fight" by Floyd Gibbons
Already the sculptor Life was chiselling away the easy curves with the tool of responsibility.
From The Courage of the Commonplace by Mary Raymond Shipman Andrews
He went back to his work; he was chiselling a story which was to be the foremost excuse of a magazine as yet unborn.
From The Bell in the Fog and Other Stories by Gertrude Franklin Horn Atherton
He was chiselling with great vigour at the rock over his head, and immediately beyond him another man stood on a plank supported by a beam of timber, and busily engaged in a similar occupation.
From Deep Down, a Tale of the Cornish Mines by R. M. (Robert Michael) Ballantyne
