Example Sentences

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Someone wished to burden the old whittler with more motivation, and tacked on a dead wife to boot.

From New York Times • Sep. 8, 2022

Or the Haida may have acquired it from an American whittler.

From New York Times • Mar. 24, 2011

Soon every back-porch whittler and crackerjack craftsman was getting into the act.

From Time Magazine Archive

Called Carving a Statue, it stars Ralph Richardson, who is a single-minded whittler.

From Time Magazine Archive

But Rudolph kept whittling away, and his sister soon became a good whittler, too.

From Queer Stories for Boys and Girls by Eggleston, Edward