Example sentences for: carve

How can you use “carve” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • In the Bahrain daily Akhbar al-Khaleej , the Egyptian columnist Assayed Zahra wrote that the United States was now carrying out its intention to carve up Iraq along ethnic and sectarian lines and to trigger a civil war that would unseat Saddam.

  • Across the country, airlines such as Reno Air and Legend Airlines are trying to carve out regional niches within which they can challenge the industry giants.

  • A new idea, imported from the West, is to take the galls and other strange growths that occur on tree trunks and carve them into a witty or grotesque design, using the natural shape.

  • At the end of the 19th century unemployed samurai— adventurous but still attached to the old traditions — took their families to Hokkaido to carve out a new life for themselves.

  • The cover story debates whether NATO's goal should be to carve up Kosovo or administer it as a protectorate.


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