chiseling 1 of 2

variants or chiselling
present participle of chisel

chiseling

2 of 2

noun

variants or chiselling

Example Sentences

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Recent Examples of chiseling
Verb
There’s an art to the hand-cutting and chiseling of the tiles which has been passed down through generations. Patricia Shannon, Better Homes & Gardens, 1 Sep. 2025 The type of manual mining Ojibwe perform to obtain pipestone, however, involves crawling into small caves and careful chiseling by hand. Frank Vaisvilas, jsonline.com, 14 Aug. 2025
Noun
Jason Dawson of the Children's Cancer Centre chiseling the bricks around the time capsule. Patrick Smith, NBC news, 27 Aug. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for chiseling
Verb
  • When not plucking away at a keyboard, Madison teaches yoga and mountain bikes with her two Australian shepherds, Cholla and Poppy, through Missoula's Rattlesnake Wilderness.
    Madison Dapcevich, Outside, 29 Aug. 2025
  • It’s haltingly played, like a child plucking out the notes, to emphasize John’s deep connection to his daughter.
    David Ehrlich, IndieWire, 20 Aug. 2025
Verb
  • Four astronauts returned to Earth after hustling to the International Space Station five months ago to relieve the stuck test pilots of Boeing’s Starliner.
    Jeremy Mikula, NBC news, 10 Aug. 2025
  • Pope made sure to share the celebration again, jogging to find his wife and daughters behind the bench for a long embrace before hustling to a TV interview.
    Jesse Temple, New York Times, 27 Mar. 2025
Noun
  • That assumes your startup is developing artificial intelligence tools for cat-skinning.
    Neil Senturia, San Diego Union-Tribune, 18 Aug. 2025
Verb
  • Row the dumbbell up towards your chest, squeezing your shoulder blades together.
    Jakob Roze, Health, 8 Sep. 2025
  • While startups occasionally push boundaries with optimization techniques—squeezing more efficiency out of existing silicon—barriers to entry are overwhelmingly high.
    Forbes.com, Forbes.com, 7 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • And what could be more legitimate of a cause for removing a governor of the nation's central bank—which is, among other things, the lender of last resort to the country's financial institutions—than the alleged defrauding of those very financial institutions?
    Josh Hammer, MSNBC Newsweek, 29 Aug. 2025
  • Her alleged defrauding of the Jackson Health Foundation, however, extended well beyond Miami, according to an indictment and other court records.
    Jay Weaver, Miami Herald, 12 Aug. 2025
Verb
  • Park Min-young played a timid wife seeking revenge on her cheating man in Marry My Husband.
    Joan MacDonald, Forbes.com, 6 Sep. 2025
  • The basic logic of Article XIII is to promote fair play among the 30 teams and prevent teams from cheating.
    Michael McCann, Sportico.com, 5 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • Even if what Weyland-Yutani has is blood-sucking, eye-gouging, and chest-bursting alien monsters.
    James Grebey, Vulture, 12 Aug. 2025
Verb
  • The Jays spent much of their 2025 rise beating up on the Yankees, and three September games at Yankee Stadium presented a chance for one last jab.
    Mitch Bannon, New York Times, 8 Sep. 2025
  • Needless to say, beating the Jets was a good feeling for the 41-year-old signal caller.
    Evan Massey, MSNBC Newsweek, 7 Sep. 2025

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“Chiseling.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/chiseling. Accessed 9 Sep. 2025.

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