Pared away

Usage examples of whittled.

With her bronze blade she whittled a splinter of wood into a fine-tooth comb and spent hours each day under the gun carriage combing the nits out of her long, golden hair, and from the tufts of her body hair.

Food scraps, mugs and cups, broken dishes, pipe ashes, bloody bandages, oily rags, broken or bent swords, spears and maces, dark wood shavings from a walnut table leg someone had whittled away until it was nothing but a stub, basins of frozen water, dirty linen, bedsheets ripped into strips, and filthy, quilted bedcovers of every color littered the carpeted floor.

With his knife, he whittled a pile of shavings into a bare spot he had scooped out with his boot.

Then, whistling happily as he worked, he carefully jointed the limbs and fastened them to the body with pegs whittled into shape with his knife.

He whittled so savagely that he was in danger of cutting off his fingers, and he caught duck-feathers floating on the water with which to fletch his crude arrows.

All their attempts failed, and Trenowyn's fortune was soon whittled down to nought.

Job, who had an artistic Barr, whittled model buildings from the soft balsa like wood of the baobab tree and used water-washed pebbles of various colors from the sandbanks of the river to lay out the airstrip, roads, and perimeter fences of the base.

Using the soft white wood of the baobab tree, she whittled eleven tiny scale models of the Hind gunships.

They had whittled and shaved new spokes, and discarded the damaged ones.

Batula placed the ant in the opening of the reed tube in his ear and closed the end with a plug of whittled soft wood.