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Example sentences for "chiseling"

Lexicographically close words:
chirurgie; chirurgien; chirurgion; chisel; chiseled; chiselled; chiselling; chisels; chissel; chist
  1. A typical form of sidewise chiseling is the cutting out of a dado, Fig.

  2. In rounding a corner, both this and perpendicular chiseling are common methods.

  3. It is an advantage in delicate chiseling and gouging.

  4. End chiseling requires considerable force and therefore only thin shavings should be cut off at a time.

  5. To avoid sawing too deep at the blind end, the sawing and chiseling out of waste may be carried on alternately, a little at a time, till the required depth is reached.

  6. In chiseling end-wood, it is well, if possible, to rest the piece to be trimmed flat on the cutting board or on a piece of waste wood.

  7. When chiseling it is well to stand so as to look along the line being cut.

  8. A typical form of mallet chiseling is the digging of a mortise, Fig.

  9. If your cast breaks in two while you are chiseling the mould off, go ahead more carefully, and when you are done, chip the broken edges at the back, wet them with water, and stick them together with plaster.

  10. A red-breasted woodpecker was chiseling out a nursery in a tall sycamore at the border of a woodland.

  11. Braced in position by stiff tail feathers and {194} clinging by his stout toes, the woodpecker keeps hammering and chiseling at his home more hours every day than a labour union would allow.

  12. It is easy to tell a woodpecker at sight or even beyond it, when you see or hear him hammering for a dinner, or drumming a love song, {190} or chiseling out a home in some partly decayed tree.

  13. But the chiseling is more careful than the chiseling done at that time in the Erechtheum.

  14. I went to the royal tent and discovered His Majesty hard at work chiseling out an article on "How I Brought Down My First Proterosaurus" on a slab of granite he had brought with him.

  15. For the first time Miss Short forgot the broad shoulders, and noticed the unlooked-for sternness about the young man's mouth, the hitherto uncaught thin chiseling of the ascetic nose and the puzzling dreaminess of the calm eyes.

  16. Do you usually associate with Tyrolian bums who are chiseling their way around the world?

  17. Life had evidently been busy chiseling away her rough edges, and from a certain poise of body and a professional control of voice and gesture, it was apparent that Nance had done a little chiseling on her own account.


  18. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "chiseling" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.