Eksempler på chisel

• The men were put over the side with ice saws and chisels to saw and chip away the ice ahead of the bows.

• The chiselled, unperturbed musical themes of the ballet are heard as distinct events, elements of an abstract design that could very easily be a full-fledged text as indecipherable as hieroglyphs.

• They were objects he had carved out of the state of nature for his patrons, and yet they were not like a statue chiseled out of a block of marble.

• We then chiselled out of it and did not give the aid.

• We may also run the danger of being chiselled out of the manufacturing industry in the supersonic era.

• Anything that chisels away at those assumptions can be unwise.

• They have got to be chiselled into the artificial and unnatural conditions of town life.

• There is no doubt that substantial sums have been chiselled from that budget and misused.

• When full employment returned it meant that machinery, chisels and hammers had to be manufactured.

• I can assure him that we are certainly not going to be chiselled out of our fine position in the design and development of aircraft.

• Is it not unfortunate that the support should have been chiselled down as it has been?

• I am still working in the factory where chisels are used.

• If other countries are cheating or chiselling, then we must have it out with them.

• One morning they sent half a dozen men with a lorry, some steps, some hammers and chisels and a few enamelled plates.

• Each year another bit has been chiselled off.