chiselled

Example Sentences

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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

Lithe, with abs chiselled from granite and blond in his hair, he looked like WWE wrestler Cody Rhodes.

From BBC • May 12, 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

The many faces of the stone had sharp edges as though they had been newly chiselled.

From "The Two Towers" by J. R. R. Tolkien