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
• 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
• 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
• The earth showed the rake of four chisel points, as wide as my outspread fingers.
  — Author: Ned Rozell, Alaska Dispatch News, 21 Oct. 2017
• Clean up the bottom of each dado with a 1/4-inch chisel.
  — Roy Berendson, Popular Mechanics, 21 Mar. 2018
• With a sharp chisel, clean out all the veneer and old glue within that area.
  — Jeanne Huber, Washington Post, 6 Oct. 2023
• Scambos compares the calving of the iceberg to a chisel on a board of wood.
  — Dan Stillman, Anchorage Daily News, 25 Jan. 2023
• 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
• Make a hole in the ice using an ice chisel, auger, or cordless drill.
  — Whitney Spivey, Outside Online, 29 Jan. 2013
• With bark stripped away, the marks of his chisel are boldly expressed.
  — Scott Cantrell, Dallas News, 26 May 2023
• 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
• Early cans, a niche item, were opened with a chisel and hammer.
  — Leo Deluca, Smithsonian Magazine, 13 July 2023
• 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
• The chisel-shaped slab of the PS4 looked more like an edgy turntable than a game console, and its weight was surprising.
  — Dia Lacina, Wired, 5 Nov. 2020
• 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
• 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
• Of course, there’s also a painter’s easel, a chisel, and a microscope.
  — Tim Newcomb, Popular Mechanics, 11 July 2022
• Durand looked at the door and found scratches from the screwdriver or a chisel.
  — James Karst, NOLA.com, 7 Jan. 2018
• Regan loved tools, and kept his chisels and planes razor sharp.
  — Anne M. Hamilton, courant.com, 15 July 2018
• 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
• 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
• For me, painters were painters, and sculptors were sculptors, with hammers and chisels.
  — Tom Sancton, Vanities, 17 Aug. 2017
• 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
• Square the corners of the rabbet by carefully chopping down with a sharp chisel, and then glue in the bottom.
  — Paul Steiner, Popular Mechanics, 24 Mar. 2023
• A few days into the trip, McCarthy used a hammer and chisel to break small chunks of the paleosols away from the outcrop.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 24 July 2021
• One bench over, Nicole Martellino is laying out lines on a slab of wood for chisel practice.
  — Los Angeles Times, 14 Oct. 2019
• After about 45 minutes, remove the clamps and peel off excess glue with a chisel.
  — Neal Barrett, Popular Mechanics, 7 Aug. 2021
• He and a friend used a chisel to remove the roof, laid a little fiberglass down and installed a plastic windshield from a speed boat.
  — Kevin Wallevand, Twin Cities, 8 Aug. 2019
• The new find, unearthed in 2016, includes cylindrical fragments of bronze, along with a bronze knife, awl, and small chisel.
  — Andrew Curry, Science | AAAS, 15 Oct. 2019
• His tools include hammers, chisels, saws, rasps, files and curved steel calipers in several sizes.
  — Elaine Sciolino, Smithsonian Magazine, 1 Dec. 2023

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chisel

2 of 2 verb

• He chiseled off a corner of the block.
• Letters were chiseled into a wall.
• 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
• He's got blonde hair and chiseled cheek bones for days.
  — Noelle Devoe, Seventeen, 9 Oct. 2017
• 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
• 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
• 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
• All this too helped chisel the contours of the modern self.
  — Gal Beckerman, The New Republic, 7 May 2018
• Players have 10 minutes to chisel out the shape from the treat or be shot to death.
  — Hahna Yoon, Wired, 13 Oct. 2021
• 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
• The body of the A6 looks as solid as a block of granite that's been chiseled and chamfered to knock off the sharp edges.
  — Fred M.h. Gregory, Car and Driver, 12 July 2023
• Rather than chisel out a V shape, the widened cracks should be squared off, which helps the patch stay in place better.
  — Washington Post, 26 Oct. 2020
• We are not taught how to chisel that plaque off our beings.
  — Washington Post, 21 Apr. 2021
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• Knox and Washington needed time to find their voice and to chisel roles.
  — Fletcher Page, The Courier-Journal, 9 May 2018
• 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
• 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
• Donald left this world chiseling turquoise out of rock with his bare hands.
  — Lisa Miller, The Cut, 8 July 2018
• But turning heads at the shore, pool, or park isn’t the only reason to chisel your middle.
  — Men's Health, 26 May 2023
• Bieber wrote under the black-and-white photo that shows off Simpson’s chiseled abs.
  — Claudia Harmata, PEOPLE.com, 10 Oct. 2019
• The screwdriver used to chisel out the door panel was recovered from the back yard.
  — James Karst, NOLA.com, 13 May 2018
• In the final steps, Frueh chisels out the cytomegalovirus-influenza portion of the genes, then makes enough copies for Sacha to use in his lab.
  — oregonlive, 21 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
• 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
• That’s all yours; then to share, there’s a swim-up cocktail bar in the cliff-edge pool, a wine bar, and a subterranean spa, chiseled into the cliffs, which combines ancient Greek tradition with island herbs.
  — Cnn.com Wire Service, The Mercury News, 5 Jan. 2024
• Each of its frames are hand-finished in its English factory, while certain parts are chiseled from solid blocks of billet aluminum.
  — Charlie Thomas, Robb Report, 12 Jan. 2024

Last Updated: 5 Sep 2024