chiseled

Example Sentences

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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

I love how Lindsey can look past the chiseled bodies and the silly challenges and all of that mugging for the camera to see genuine emotion.

From New York Times

In adapting her memoir for television, she said she chiseled the show’s protagonist into a character who was less self-aware, and less precocious, than herself.

From New York Times

Such anxiety emerges as one of the strengths of House’s raw and tender prose — “Mother Noise” feels lovingly labored over, expertly whittled and chiseled into its current frank form.

From New York Times

Each player starts out with 8,000 “life points,” which get chiseled away as your cards lose.

From Seattle Times