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To bear up under the higher stress, the PDK’s clutches, gearsets and bevel gear have all been reinforced.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 30, 2025

Often, the city’s answer is a temporary bevel and shim fix — either grinding down edges on cracked sidewalks or adding a small amount of asphalt to bridge the gaps.

From Seattle Times ● Sep. 19, 2023

According to Adidas, the Weagle design on the front of the sweater features a “combination of sublimation and classic twill embroidery,” producing a bevel effect.

From Washington Post ● Jan. 26, 2023

Even when I'm cutting a pumpkin, I will cut a little bevel on the bottom, just cut a little edge off, and now it is solid on the board.

From Salon ● Nov. 25, 2022

A bevel angle, any angle other than one of 90?.

From Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (2nd 100 Pages) by Webster, Noah

The aim was realism in the inflatables’ corners and bevels but with distortion and accentuation in certain curves.

From New York Times ● Feb. 24, 2022

Staircases that had simple bevels and architecture give way to columbines, lotuses and other ornate features carved into the walnut and mahogany.

From Washington Times ● Dec. 20, 2020

To answer an obvious question: The difference between 15 degrees and 12 degrees is so slight that a 15-degree sharpener is fine for both kinds of bevels.

From Slate ● Oct. 11, 2018

A whisper of sweetness bevels the crisp edges.

From Seattle Times ● Sep. 16, 2016

The bevels forming the cutting edge require to be very smoothly oilstoned.

From Modern Machine-Shop Practice, Volumes I and II by Rose, Joshua

Their beveled corners are polished to a high glossy sheen, which creates slender vertical stripes that contrast sharply with the charcoal shadows from which they emerge.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 29, 2025

Do you want to know if someone needs a changing table topper with beveled sides, preferably before Friday?

From Slate ● Jan. 11, 2025

This flat piece will have beveled edges and it will be secured to the roof ridge board.

From Seattle Times ● Apr. 8, 2024

If you’re reusing parts, the only tricky details are to slip the nuts onto the unthreaded sections first, then add the washers, so the beveled edge faces the pipe section that has the threads.

From Washington Post ● Nov. 4, 2022

A huge beveled mirror gave a man sitting on the stool a view of the whole grill.

From "The Great Santini" by Pat Conroy

He has also acted in theatre and on screen, busked, potted, bevelled glass, made music and made people laugh - he's about to cameo in TV series Black Comedy, which showcases indigenous sketches.

From BBC ● Sep. 30, 2019

These driftwood sculptures were first recorded by a Danish expedition in the 1880s, along with bas-relief versions of fjords, carefully grooved and bevelled to represent headland depths.

From The Guardian ● Feb. 7, 2017

But, amid waves of contact, large languages lose their sharp edges, becoming bevelled as pieces of glass.

From The New Yorker ● Aug. 1, 2016

"The cause is Ozymandian The map of Sapokanikan Is sanded and bevelled The land lone and levelled By some unrecorded and powerful hand Which plays along the monument And drums upon a plastic bag"

From The Verge ● Oct. 23, 2015

Yet another method is to use an emery-wheel bevelled on its edge, and mount it as in Fig.

From Modern Machine-Shop Practice, Volumes I and II by Rose, Joshua

“I wanted to keep the planters very linear, without any beveling on the edges, and that informed my material choice,” she says.

From Seattle Times ● Sep. 8, 2023

Plywood is made from layers of compressed sheets, which the beveling reveals at the sides.

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 14, 2016

We settled on a sculptural stylized version and this sketch shows a study in variations on the amount of beveling and possible finishes.

From Time ● Mar. 4, 2015

A strange example of depending on the stone foundation for not simply support, but to resist strain, may be found in the machines used for beveling the edges of boiler plate.

From Scientific American Supplement, No. 643, April 28, 1888 by Various

Except for the beveling of the mold for the curtain wall recesses, the framing is all plain saw and hammer work.

From Concrete Construction Methods and Costs by Gillette, Halbert Powers

In marine architecture, implies those frames which are square with the line of the keel, having no bevelling upon them.

From The Sailor's Word-Book An Alphabetical Digest of Nautical Terms, including Some More Especially Military and Scientific, but Useful to Seamen; as well as Archaisms of Early Voyagers, etc. by Belcher, Edward, Sir

A jig, or cradle, is easily made by bevelling the edges of two separate pieces of wood and then glueing and screwing them together as at Fig.

From Woodwork Joints How they are Set Out, How Made and Where Used. by Fairham, William

Also, the bevelling of any piece of timber or plank to any required angle: as the bearding of dead wood, clamps, &c.

From The Sailor's Word-Book An Alphabetical Digest of Nautical Terms, including Some More Especially Military and Scientific, but Useful to Seamen; as well as Archaisms of Early Voyagers, etc. by Belcher, Edward, Sir

This may, however, be remedied to a great extent by bevelling off the ends from the outside as shown in Fig.

From Modern Machine-Shop Practice, Volumes I and II by Rose, Joshua

Absurd, wasn't it, but the Ranger was not dreaming about the bevelling trowel of the titan mountain gods?

From The Freebooters of the Wilderness by Laut, Agnes C. (Agnes Christina)