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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

Shifting into fifth gear, I straddled the centerline to correct the bevel toward the borrow pit and accelerated into triple digits.

From Salon ● Oct. 22, 2022

“The Rockette bevel is what it’s all about.”

From New York Times ● Sep. 4, 2020

The overlap is cut down to a plain bevel so as to reduce the joint to nearly or quite the same thickness as the main body of the belt.

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

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

The difference is in the angle of the bevel that forms the cutting edge: Traditional European knives have roughly 20-degree bevels, while Japanese knives have roughly 15-degree ones.

From Slate ● Oct. 11, 2018

A whisper of sweetness bevels the crisp edges.

From Seattle Times ● Sep. 16, 2016

"It is swell, I declare!" said Jane, with her eye on the wrought-iron work of the outer doors, and the jewels and bevels of the inner ones.

From Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern, Vol. 15 by Various

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

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

For his own home, Erlich chose crisp geometric pavers with tight beveled edges, and used sand to discourage weed growth.

From Seattle Times ● Sep. 29, 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

After the second set of microelectrodes was implanted, the excised portion of Scheuermann’s skull was returned—though it was bevelled at the seams to allow the wires to pass through to the pedestals.

From The New Yorker ● Nov. 19, 2018

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

"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

There was a sideboard of carved oak that had only one fault, it reminded Kipps at times of wood-carving, and its panel of bevelled glass now reflected the back of his head.

From Kipps The Story of a Simple Soul by H. G. (Herbert George) Wells

“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

The feet can be made first by squaring up one end of each and beveling the other as shown in the drawing.

From Mission Furniture How to Make It, Part 2 by H. H. (Henry Haven) Windsor

Beveling and Mitering.—There is a difference in the terms "beveling" and "mitering," as used in the art.

From Carpentry for Boys In a Simple Language, Including Chapters on Drawing, Laying Out Work, Designing and Architecture With 250 Original Illustrations by James Slough Zerbe

When in situ it is accommodated by the Cutigeral Groove, a cavity produced by the bevelling out of the superior portion of the inner face of the wall of the hoof.

From Diseases of the Horse's Foot by Harry Caulton Reeks

An instrument by which bevelling angles are taken.

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 Sir Edward Belcher

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 William Fairham

He soon invented a machine for bevelling hoop-rings, and made five thousand dollars the first year from its use.

From Lives of Poor Boys Who Became Famous by Sarah K. Bolton

The principle is that bevelling off the front edge of the cutter, as shown in Fig.

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