(1) In this society saturated with diet tips and fitness blogs, with “bony boasters” showcasing their ribs on Instagram and bikini selfies on newsfeeds, our food neurosis seems explicit, on the table for all to see.
Chisel
Definition:
(n.) A tool with a cutting edge on one end of a metal blade, used in dressing, shaping, or working in timber, stone, metal, etc.; -- usually driven by a mallet or hammer.
(v. t.) To cut, pare, gouge, or engrave with a chisel; as, to chisel a block of marble into a statue.
(v. t.) To cut close, as in a bargain; to cheat.
Example Sentences:
(1) When the method proposed by Trela (1975) is applied, thin layers of the petrous crest are chiselled out until the common crus of the superior and posterior semi-circular becomes apparent.
(2) A new system, which includes cannulated chisels and a cannulated one-piece plate that can be inserted over a guide wire, is suggested.
(3) Our technique of using autogenous bone, cut with a thin chisel which curls to the shape of the ear canal, will be presented and illustrated.
(4) Nevertheless it is still far from clear, perhaps even to May herself, what will emerge once she has finished with her hammer and chisel.
(5) A chisel edged, stainless steel ring was cemented to the butt end of a dentin cylinder.
(6) Ultrasonic chisels are used clinically to remove composite-retained bridges from one or both abutment teeth.
(7) The super-sized Alabaman certainly looks the part: 228lbs of chiseled musculature and fast-twitch fibers that wouldn’t be out of place in an NFL team’s defensive backfield.
(8) We obtained good results in preventing these complications by a fixation at the hollow which is made by chiseling the frontal bone and by fibrous tissue which grows through the small holes of the implant tail.
(9) They scalped them to remove the hair, they removed the eyeballs and ears, they knocked off the faces, then removed the jaws and chiseled away the edges to make the rims nice and even.
(10) "The decision to return the marbles to the place where they were chiselled, next to those sculptures from which they were so illegally and violently ripped apart."
(11) The surgical blade, and especially the reciprocating motor-driven diamond tip eliminated overhangs better than the chisel.
(12) Back in the freezer, I put down the two-inch chisel and pick up a one-inch.
(13) He is a boat-rocking libertarian with a chisel-jawed faith in a small state and the power of the little man transmitted through the internet.
(14) Approximately half routinely use a chisel as opposed to a bur for bone removal.
(15) The first chink of light has been spotted between the top three and the chasing pack, a three-point gap chiselled out between Mourinho's team and fourth-placed Everton to suggest a massed scramble towards the summit is thinning out.
(16) Chisel in hand, he walked slowly around the base of his giant sculpture, carefully inspecting the detail on the eagle crest in front, and the name inscribed on the back – John Garang de Mabior.
(17) Vibration isolating gloves were tested and resulted in an additional reduction in vibration of up to 63% when used with the chisel sleeve.
(18) Displacement amplitude measurements at the tip of the two designs available showed that the curved chisel was twice as powerful as the straight chisel.
(19) Madrid kept their cool in the face of the storm and, gradually, they chiselled out a foothold.
(20) It showed that substantially higher vibration levels are produced at the chisel of a chipping hammer than at its handle.