How to Use chisel in a Sentence

chisel

1 of 2 noun

• Their long bills work like a chisel to crack open the tough piñon shell.
  — Sara Van Note, WIRED, 6 Nov. 2022
• Early cans, a niche item, were opened with a chisel and hammer.
  — Leo Deluca, Smithsonian Magazine, 13 July 2023
• Make a hole in the ice using an ice chisel, auger, or cordless drill.
  — Whitney Spivey, Outside Online, 29 Jan. 2013
• With a sharp chisel, clean out all the veneer and old glue within that area.
  — Jeanne Huber, Washington Post, 6 Oct. 2023
• With bark stripped away, the marks of his chisel are boldly expressed.
  — Scott Cantrell, Dallas News, 26 May 2023
• The earth showed the rake of four chisel points, as wide as my outspread fingers.
  — Author: Ned Rozell, Alaska Dispatch News, 21 Oct. 2017
• The wood chisel is used to square up the two inside corners of the mortise.
  — Tim Carter, Hartford Courant, 3 Jan. 2026
• Then support the leg on a piece of scrap wood, and use a sharp chisel to chop out the waste [6].
  — Neal Barrett, Popular Mechanics, 5 June 2021
• The team also found chunks of black rock and pieces of red ochre that had been punctured by sharp stone chisels.
  — Ann Gibbons, Science | AAAS, 15 Mar. 2018
• On a typical two-flute drill bit, the web also forms the chisel edge at the tip of the bit.
  — Timothy Dale, The Spruce, 5 June 2026
• Dugan says the best way to check the safety of the ice is to have an ice chisel with you while moving across the ice.
  — Peter Warren, Star Tribune, 12 Mar. 2021
• Of course, there’s also a painter’s easel, a chisel, and a microscope.
  — Tim Newcomb, Popular Mechanics, 11 July 2022
• For me, painters were painters, and sculptors were sculptors, with hammers and chisels.
  — Tom Sancton, Vanities, 17 Aug. 2017
• Scambos compares the calving of the iceberg to a chisel on a board of wood.
  — Dan Stillman, Anchorage Daily News, 25 Jan. 2023
• Durand looked at the door and found scratches from the screwdriver or a chisel.
  — James Karst, NOLA.com, 7 Jan. 2018
• Holes large enough for two lines are my preference, and that has always been a chore for an auger and an ice chisel.
  — John Schandelmeier, Anchorage Daily News, 2 Apr. 2023
• Hammers and chisels notch a bridge to allow piano strings to vibrate freely.
  — Joel Williams, CNN Money, 18 Oct. 2025
• Officers used chisels to break up the slag, then an air hammer to remove the chunks from the oven floor.
  — cincinnati.com, 17 Mar. 2020
• Get the tip of the cold chisel between the threads and give the chisel a sharp blow using a ball peen hammer.
  — Roy Berendsohn, Popular Mechanics, 7 June 2023
• With the cuts complete, use a very sharp, wide chisel to shave off the fingers created by the saw cuts.
  — Bradley Ford, Popular Mechanics, 12 Dec. 2022
• Justin complemented her in a blue suit, white button-up, and black chisel-toe boots.
  — Christian Allaire, Vogue, 19 Apr. 2021
• From the big room beyond, where men are working with chisels and planes, wafts a powerful smell of wood glue.
  — Tim Parks, New Yorker, 11 Apr. 2026
• Use the chisel set if your fossil is closer to the surface, or the rock pick if it’s lodged deeper in the rock.
  — Jana Meisenholder, WSJ, 24 Mar. 2021
• Guests can watch aproned masters at work— chisels and gouges in hand—shaping, grooving, and whittling.
  — Ashlea Halpern, Condé Nast Traveler, 12 Aug. 2025
• Wear marks on the chisel suggest that someone probably used it to cut bronze fragments like the ones in the kit.
  — Kiona N. Smith, Ars Technica, 18 Oct. 2019
• Next, clamp each leg to the workbench, and use a sharp chisel to finish cutting the mortises to size.
  — Neal Barrett, Popular Mechanics, 14 Nov. 2020
• After about 45 minutes, remove the clamps and peel off excess glue with a chisel.
  — Neal Barrett, Popular Mechanics, 7 Aug. 2021
• One bench over, Nicole Martellino is laying out lines on a slab of wood for chisel practice.
  — Los Angeles Times, 14 Oct. 2019
• The letter had been slit open at each corner with a chisel to allow the fumigant inside.
  — Geoff Manaugh, The Atlantic, 20 July 2021
• Headaches that feel like a chisel going through your head scrapping little bits off each time, fever, muscles that just did not want to work.
  — John Sinnott, CNN, 28 Dec. 2020

chisel

2 of 2 verb

• He chiseled off a corner of the block.
• Letters were chiseled into a wall.
• But why not kick things up a notch and chisel more than just your guns?
  — NBC News, 4 Apr. 2018
• Go ahead and chisel that last quote right into the base of the statue.
  — SFChronicle.com, 3 Aug. 2019
• Donald left this world chiseling turquoise out of rock with his bare hands.
  — Lisa Miller, The Cut, 8 July 2018
• The hood looks chiseled, and the whole silhouette gives a very boxy feel.
  — New Atlas, 23 Apr. 2026
• At one point, a guide chiseled chunks off an iceberg and passed them to Scalia.
  — Justin Elliott, Joshua Kaplan and Alex Mierjeski, Anchorage Daily News, 22 June 2023
• Cantu chiseled the wheel’s old weights off of its rim and scraped the inside of the rim clean.
  — Michael Grabell, ProPublica, 3 May 2023
• The meaning of life is not chiseled on stone tablets, nor in what your dad told you growing up.
  — Big Think, 25 Sep. 2025
• For all of the tall, fast, and chiseled elite athletes, there are a few who look, well, like the rest of us.
  — Big Think, 29 Jan. 2026
• Since then, there's been a campaign to chisel away at the truth of what really went down.
  — Andrea Towers, EW.com, 20 Jan. 2022
• But to be expressed in her films, feelings often had to first be chiseled down or left to chill.
  — Max Nelson, The New York Review of Books, 6 June 2019
• Players have 10 minutes to chisel out the shape from the treat or be shot to death.
  — Hahna Yoon, Wired, 13 Oct. 2021
• The Brewers chiseled a couple of runs off that lead with two swings of the bat in the sixth.
  — Tom Haudricourt, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 16 Sep. 2017
• Kids ages 8 and up can use this kit to make slime and goop, make a volcano erupt and chisel for gemstones.
  — Halla Mannering, Discover Magazine, 18 Nov. 2022
• Knox and Washington needed time to find their voice and to chisel roles.
  — Fletcher Page, The Courier-Journal, 9 May 2018
• Instead, grind or chisel out all the old mortar, clean the gap with a wire brush, and then add the new mortar.
  — Kevin Dupzyk, Popular Mechanics, 21 Dec. 2018
• Standing on that field chiseled out of farmland, Willard had tears in those kind, wise eyes two years ago.
  — Dana Hunsinger Benbow, Indianapolis Star, 14 Nov. 2019
• The side-profile is chiseled and tight, with a long wheelbase front to rear and a short overhang on the front wheels.
  — Hannah Elliott, Bloomberg.com, 6 Mar. 2018
• These birds chisel small cavities in posts and trees, power poles a frequent choice.
  — Jim Williams, Star Tribune, 24 Nov. 2020
• But turning heads at the shore, pool, or park isn’t the only reason to chisel your middle.
  — Men's Health, 26 May 2023
• The sports stars of tomorrow may no longer be chiseled home run hitters or deft three-point shooters.
  — Jessica Mendoza, The Christian Science Monitor, 20 Mar. 2018
• My husband did all the stonework, too, and chiseled each flagstone into a perfect shape.
  — Chris Ross, sandiegouniontribune.com, 3 May 2018
• Pare by hand to smooth the walls of the mortise and use a mallet to chisel the ends of the mortise square [8].
  — Neal Barrett, Popular Mechanics, 14 Nov. 2020
• If that still doesn’t feel fast enough for you, Maureen, try chiseling a hole in your muffler.
  — San Diego Union-Tribune, 1 Sep. 2019
• If that still doesn't feel fast enough for you, Maureen, try chiseling a hole in your muffler.
  — courant.com, 21 July 2019
• There are players chiseled like stone who support their respective teams.
  — Stan Son, New York Times, 7 Oct. 2025
• Then the hard work began, like a sculptor chiseling a block of marble into a work of art.
  — Andrew Carter, Chicago Tribune, 10 Jan. 2026
• The screwdriver used to chisel out the door panel was recovered from the back yard.
  — James Karst, NOLA.com, 13 May 2018
• Moyes knows this squad well, both its strengths and weaknesses, and has become adept at chiselling out points on his travels.
  — Roshane Thomas, New York Times, 21 Apr. 2026