chisel

Failure is fatal only when the chisel is abandoned and despair prevails.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 7, 2026

“I had to put the table upside down and use a chisel and grinder to remove as much material as I could. It took us three tries to get the table right.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 8, 2026

“CMS is continuing to chisel away at higher spending associated with coding intensity,” says Tricia Neuman, executive director for the Program on Medicare Policy at KFF, a health policy nonprofit.

From Barron's ● Jan. 27, 2026

Carrying sledge hammers, scientists hiked to the impact site in South Africa to chisel off chunks of rock to understand the crash.

From BBC ● Oct. 21, 2024

He liked the sharp whistle of the plane as it slid over the board, and the ringing sound of the chisel on stone from the mason’s shed.

From "The Door in the Wall" by Marguerite de Angeli

One promising option is tungsten carbide, an Earth-abundant material already widely used in industrial machinery, cutting tools, and chisels.

From Science Daily ● Jan. 24, 2026

The marks of chisels and other hand tools are prominent across all their surfaces, which appear sleek from a distance, making for an exciting juxtaposition between material and method.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 17, 2025

He saw others who wanted to take a piece of it, who’d come to the metaphorical mountain with chisels in hand.

From Slate ● Nov. 28, 2024

Back at Cooper’s dino-shop, work began to clean and reassemble the stegosaurus, with equipment including sand-blasting jets, pneumatic chisels and powerful microscopes.

From BBC ● May 30, 2024

Tiny saws, tacks, gouges, carving chisels, fine-gritted sandpapers.

From "All the Light We Cannot See" by Anthony Doerr

Its details are sharply chiseled and fluted, in the Streamline Moderne mode, and they turn what would otherwise be raw construction into lyrical architecture.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 27, 2026

“I felt so much pressure every time I go on Instagram and I see these chiseled, really fit, good-looking guys,” says Robinson, a 31-year-old Manhattan resident who designs hospitals.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 4, 2026

Larry’s the pragmatic choice, but Luke is the romantic one, down to his handsome, chiseled features right out of a supermarket paperback.

From Salon ● Nov. 27, 2025

Farther down the Strip, I chatted with a convincing Captain America, whose chiseled jawline and sandy blond hair were betrayed only by his height, about 5-foot-10.

From Slate ● Nov. 18, 2025

Each jasper bead of red, yellow, or a combination of the two he’d chiseled down, polished, and drilled himself.

From "The Last Cuentista" by Donna Barba Higuera

Bit by bit they chiselled away, and finally they made a hole large enough that they could see Fabiana.

From BBC ● Jul. 6, 2026

They show chiselled physiques, striking before‑and‑after images and claims that you can look years younger by following a simple routine.

From BBC ● May 7, 2026

India's 'Prince' may have chiselled, film star-like good looks, but he will be prepared to fight if the crown slips.

From BBC ● Jun. 16, 2025

The Frankenstein patchwork of his face has echoes of Alasdair Gray's chiselled artwork and he uses the same gentle accent and singsong voice as Gray himself.

From BBC ● Jan. 13, 2024

The ruins themselves weren’t that impressive: a few stone walls, a weed-choked central courtyard, a dead-end stairwell chiselled into the rock.

From "Blood of Olympus" by Rick Riordan

“Looksmaxxing” has men injecting themselves with unregulated peptides and hammering their jawlines, chiseling their own bone structure like Michelangelo with a front-facing camera.

From Salon ● May 27, 2026

Zhong likens this to a sculptor chiseling away at marble until the final form emerges.

From Science Daily ● Nov. 13, 2025

By reducing the cost of chiseling, Springut reasons, architects can once again embrace the decorative flourishes of carved stone.

From Slate ● Aug. 21, 2023

Seated at one of the workbenches, Joni Bosh is hard at work chiseling along the curved side ribs of her violin-in-progress.

From Seattle Times ● Aug. 2, 2023

Though scarred and cracked, they were sculpted from years of hammering, chiseling, and fishing, and were twice the size of the foreman's.

From "Tiger Boy" by Mitali Perkins

Somewhere in the city, somebody is chiselling away at a statue of the 74-year-old.

From BBC ● May 16, 2026

"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

We entered frosty courts by a secret hatchway and waved wooden racquets in majestic arcs, a ceremony akin to polar explorers chiselling out ice caves.

From The New Yorker ● Jan. 18, 2016

He has also worked relentlessly over a decade to achieve his goal, losing weight, chiselling his body into extreme aerodynamic proportions.

From The Guardian ● Jul. 21, 2012

At the back 126 the upper part of the shoulders is roughly cut away; the chiselling does not appear to be ancient, but may have been done after the figure had fallen from the pediment.

From A Catalogue of Sculpture in the Department of Greek and Roman Antiquities, British Museum, Volume I (of 2) by A. H. Smith