Sentence examples for a pointed tool from inspiring English sources

It was then decorated by incising lines with a pointed tool.

Certain items — a jadeite model of a pointed tool used for ritual self-mutilation — are just strange.

The scenes in grisaille are sometimes rendered more subtly by hatching, executed with a pointed tool or needle to reveal the dark enamel beneath.

Generally, however, the gilder holds the book firmly in his left hand with the tissue folded back to expose as much leaf as is needed and detaches that amount with a pointed tool, such as a sharpened skewer.

The method that best matched the engraving was one in which a pointed tool or cutting edge was carefully and repeatedly inserted into an existing groove and passed along in the same direction.

The relief was then burnished and polished, and further details were incised with a pointed tool.

There is also evidence of the use of drypoint (a hard needle used without acid), burnishing, and even scraping with a burin, a short, pointed tool.

As the polaroid begins to develop, use a bluntly pointed tool (bone scraper, the non-business end of a paint brush, a non-working ball point pen, a butter knife) to etch and delineate areas you'd like to highlight in your composition.

Larger fragments of the precious metals were applied separately by hand, with the aid of a small, pointed tool.

Use a sharp pointed tool to probe the mound carefully, so you can determine the extent of the casting below the ground.

A spade with a flat square blade is better than a curved or pointed tool or hoe.