Sentence examples for chips of stone from inspiring English sources
A previous similar experiment by another team in 1986 was halted after large chips of stone chipped off the bases of the statues while they were being walked.
Among the recovered items were tiny, sharp-edged chips of stone carefully blunted on one edge.
One older competitor, bedecked in a ceremonial headdress and few other vestments, hacked away at his block until pausing to consider his radio, sitting nearby, before covering it with a hat to shield it from flying chips of stone.
More recently the Yalkut Yosef rules that it is forbidden to remove small chips of stone or dust from the Wall, although it is permissible to take twigs from the vegetation which grows in the Wall for an amulet, as they contain no holiness.
I used a chisel and hammer to the create works; I also used the remnants to use stone as a medium as a painter would use paint, creating a series called Stone Paintings from the chips of stones from sculptures that I had collected.
To the uninitiated, it's just a chip of stone, the sort of thing you might prise out of your sandal.
A chip of stone about the size of a large coin was removed, and a 2.5-inch-long scratch was left on a portion of the monument known as the Heel Stone.
Tostitos corn chips, pieces of stone, sweet potato fries … those kinds of things.
Neither a bench nor a mechanical fixture would have offered an advantage in the early chipping or flaking of stone.
In his new book, The Artificial Ape, he argues that the moment our apemen ancestors began chipping at lumps of stone to create their first tools, they released a force – technology – that has played a pivotal role in shaping the human species.
