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How to use chipping in a sentence

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A second test involves chipping small sections of concrete from the floor in several areas.
A small hand shovel was leaning against the dirt wall in front of him and Eron picked it up and began chipping away portions of the wall.
As he fell face-first his mouth smashed against the hard corner of the table, chipping a front tooth.
We found some interesting sparrows including vesper and a first year chipping sparrow going into winter plumage.
That movement saved him, as another silenced gunshot rang out, chipping the hard concrete floor above him.
The unusual shape of the stone is in part the result of early visitors chipping pieces off to use as talismans or for curative purposes.
Blue Jays and crows seem to have moved in of late, overpowering the persistent chirps of the chipping sparrows and resident cardinals.
Clay pots that you'd like to save from cracking and chipping should also be stored where they can remain dry.
Use the same procedure to prevent chipping when cutting across the grain of a solid-wood door's vertical stiles.
He has done this by stealth, by chipping away little by little and creating an Australia in his own image.
A couple of halfway decent, if rather weedy, hits would see us within chipping distance, so we went for it.
He nutmegged a defender on the edge of the box before chipping goalkeeper Paul Kelly, who was virtually on his line, from twenty yards out.
The players in the group then establish a playing order by calling coin tosses, chipping toward a tee marker, or any other simple method.
Preventing water absorption stops the surface chipping and flaking, or spalling, which eventually ruins so much concrete.
Meanwhile, Collins's case remains unsettled, and only chipping paint and crumbling steps indicate the havoc inside her house.
I was good at making little shapes on my finger nails when chipping nail polish.
In this game Royal made the mistake of either kicking too deep or not chipping.
Those blocks with a slight flow due to chipping or cracking are cut to obtain bondstones, curbs or paving stones.
I'm sick and tired of people constantly chipping away at our most sacred institution.
Residents seem dwarfed by their improbably high-ceilinged apartments, with huge transomed windows and faded, chipping walls.
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So fine is the chipping that to see the workmanship a magnifying glass is necessary.
Yet in all that time he only learned to grind his flint stones instead of chipping them.
So I prowled about and got plenty, chipping off as much as I could conveniently carry.
Here there is usually a stonecutter chipping away on a block with his graving tools.
I have no tame pets, but there are some chipping sparrows around our house.
The tree sparrow, song sparrow, chipping sparrow, field sparrow and snowbird or junco are all great weed-seed destroyers.
If chipping or cutting is required, he will grasp the first chisel at hand.
The chipping sparrow is one of the most abundant and familiar of our birds.
A chipping sparrow of the Plains which nests on the ground and in low bushes.
The common wren and the chipping sparrow, for instance, have a flight like that of a young bird.
It was Chippy, as everybody calls the chipping sparrow, the smallest of the family.
Why, you are not very much bigger than Chippy the chipping sparrow, only you've got longer legs.
He wore a chestnut cap, almost exactly like that of Chippy the chipping sparrow.
I will also exchange a chimney-swallow's egg for the egg of any bird except a robin, blue jay, or chipping sparrow.
I have known a chipping sparrow to build her nest on a grape-vine just beneath a bunch of small green grapes.
Almost everyone emphasizes the resemblance of the song to that of the chipping sparrow.
That is, he found that by chipping, he could locate small bubbles up to an inch in diameter, each one with its droplet of water.
In the song sparrow, field sparrow, chipping sparrow, and the fox sparrow the male and female are very nearly alike in color.
A drifting chisel may have a longer taper than one used for chipping.
This seems more likely to be a hammerstone used for chipping.
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