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

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 Atherton, Gertrude Franklin Horn

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 Gibbons, Floyd

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 Ballantyne, R. M. (Robert Michael)

Already the sculptor Life was chiselling away the easy curves with the tool of responsibility.

From The Courage of the Commonplace by Andrews, Mary Raymond Shipman