chiselled
Example Sentences
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A cat that was chiselled out from between two walls by firefighters appeared more angered than relieved after its rescue.
From BBC • Apr. 14, 2024
On 26 November 1922, he had held up a candle to peer through a tiny breach chiselled in a doorway sealed for three millennia.
From BBC • Nov. 25, 2022
He then took up a teaching position at the University of New Hampshire in Durham, where he quietly chiselled away at his passion, the statistical properties of prime numbers.
From Scientific American • Nov. 15, 2022
Iraqi sculptor Khaled Al-Abadi's carefully chiselled engravings of lions, chariots, and birds decorate his Mosul workshop - the fulfilment of a dream to "to recreate what was demolished" during turbulent years of war.
From Reuters • Sep. 23, 2022
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
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
