How To Use Chip away In A Sentence
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The best rewriting method in this case is the simplest: by correcting one problem you chip away at the others.
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Mr Zittrain fears that the rise of tethered appliances will inevitably chip away at the freedom of the internet and personal computing, which many take for granted.
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She used a hammer to chip away the stone.
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They will chip away at any self-deception during the gruelling group sessions, which are at the heart of the programme - though psychodrama and art therapy are also used.
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President Obama himself has faced a stinging rebuke from congress for his comments about lawmakers '"obsession" with the war, and the Out of Afghanistan Caucus continues to chip away at what little apatite for war remains in congress.
Josh Mull: All politics is local: Al-Qa'eda and the Afghanistan War
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I chip away the damaged brick and replaced it with a new one.
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You just chip away at the drawing board.
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Oystercatchers may wedge the shells into a crevice and chip away at the lip.
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You just chip away at the drawing board.
Times, Sunday Times
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Instead of an outright coup attempt, the rebels want to chip away at her authority.
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Chip away the damaged area.
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Oystercatchers may wedge the shells into a crevice and chip away at the lip.
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In therapy, we chip away at this, bit by bit.
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Instead of an outright coup attempt, the rebels want to chip away at her authority.
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So I'm pig-headedly refusing to take out my chisel and chip away at any slight imperfections.
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He used a hammer and chisel to chip away at the wall.
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Instead of an outright coup attempt, the rebels want to chip away at her authority.
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When he stopped, he pulled out a chisel and a hammer and began to chip away at the rock.
Christianity Today
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Although this bodes well for him, it doesn't chip away at the tarnish the troubled superstar brings to professional basketball.
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Ehrlich's energetic performance is likely to hearten his supporters, but O'Malley didn't appear to stumble, using the debate to detail his administration's accomplishments, chip away at his opponent's credibility and appeal to the Washington area's interests.
O'Malley, Ehrlich vigorously debate social issues, Purple Line
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He used a hammer and chisel to chip away at the wall.
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(In any film about solidarity, lingerie is the shorthand for emergency sluthood.) "You have your fancy gardens and your nice houses," Crystal says, and proceeds to chip away at Mary's fantasy of marital bliss.
The New Yorker
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So how can you chip away at the anti-vax lobby?
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There are continuous attempts to chip away at abortion rights, especially in the US.
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When he stopped, he pulled out a chisel and a hammer and began to chip away at the rock.
Christianity Today
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But will calling fertilized eggs "little children" help them chip away at abortion rights?
RHRealityCheck.org
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So I'm pig-headedly refusing to take out my chisel and chip away at any slight imperfections.
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When he stopped, he pulled out a chisel and a hammer and began to chip away at the rock.
Christianity Today
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I chip away the damaged brick and replaced it with a new one.
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Tomorrow I have to grade a slightly smaller scad of papers, finish prepping one of my classes for Monday, and chip away at three work reports that are due on Friday.
Archive 2008-03-01
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The findings dovetail with on-going research into mechanisms we employ to boost our self-esteem, particularly in an environment where job insecurity, secularism and changing roles tend to chip away at it.
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Physics can chip away, bringing things out of the realm of metaphysics and into testable reality.
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The group had hoped to chip away at its debts by selling assets.
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It may be possible to chip away at recalcitrant citizens by portraying the obstinate allies as mischievous or worse.
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Instead of an outright coup attempt, the rebels want to chip away at her authority.
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In therapy, we chip away at this, bit by bit.
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Such advances are helping to chip away local employer prejudice against recruiting from the estate.