Sentence examples for filing down from inspiring English sources

To do that, they needed very thin pieces, which they first tried to produce by filing down graphite crystals, with no luck.

Mohammed Obaidullah, owner of the upstairs knitwear factory, said his workers were able to escape by filing down two staircases that did not pass through the ground-floor storage area.

According to an old CIA manual, the tool should have a smooth edge, preferably with a curved, blunt tip.[2] These tools can be made by filing down a piece of wood or an ivory piano key blank, but any flat tool with the shape described should work.

In the back, a Kurdish teenager is filing down the serial numbers.

However, his first real job was filing down metal table legs.

"Two guys do the welding and the other jobs are interchangeable: filing down the welds, bending the steel, making the little parts.

They filed down to the Gap, vibrant with Saturday shoppers.

The edges were filed down, but they are still not perfectly smooth.

Possibly with her teeth filed down to points, just to complete the image.

I'd rather have my molars filed down without anaesthetic than watch this again.

It predictably minimizes the public safety value of microstamping, claiming that criminals would file down all the markings.