Example sentences for: carve

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

  • We carve "equal justice under law" on our courthouse walls.

  • The people still carve jade and build seaworthy junks, all by hand.

  • Justice officials bristle at the charge that the secret courts also carve out a de facto national-security exemption to both the Fourth Amendment's prohibition of warrantless surveillance and the Fifth Amendment's guarantees of due process.

  • 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.

  • The paper's main editorial Friday was not about the impeachment process but about a new revelation that Britain's D-Day commander and military hero, Field Marshal Bernard Montgomery, had referred 50 years ago to the African as "a complete savage" whose only hope would be a British colonial "master plan" to carve out giant West, Central, and East African federations and unlock their vast wealth for Britain's benefit.


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