Then the gown was painstakingly cut and fit to William's body, using a mock-up fabric rather than a final cloth.

Craftsmen painstakingly cut the warp, one rib at a time, with long, knives; then they brushed it to make the pile stand up.

To produce "A Simple Answer" (1999), Bruce Pearson applied oil and acrylic paint to painstakingly cut and arranged pieces of Styrofoam.

Called tian-tsui (点翠, "dotting with kingfishers"), kingfisher feathers are painstakingly cut and glued onto gilt silver.

The sound editor Lee Dichter sat down at an editing table with the dialogue track and painstakingly cut it to fit the actors' lip movements.

Medical researchers at the University of Colorado have been painstakingly cutting a human cadaver into half-millimeter-thick slices and converting the image of each slice to digital code.

He sat down, produced a worn jackknife with a yellow ivory handle, and began to cut painstakingly around the seal covering the top of the bourbon bottle.

I painstakingly cut Bart from the photo and holding him in my hand, I try to decide just where he belongs in my collage.

In 1990 organic narcotics like hemp began appearing alongside meticulous, kaleidoscopic arrangements of birds, flowers, insects, lips and eyeballs, painstakingly cut from plant catalogs, magazines and field guides.

C'tair had used the device on four occasions to reach his brother, and after each time he'd had to painstakingly cut and refit new crystals.