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Example sentences for: carve

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The people still carve jade and build seaworthy junks, all by hand.
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.
The cover story debates whether NATO's goal should be to carve up Kosovo or administer it as a protectorate.
There were, moreover, no attempts to carve Lincoln in the nude with drapery, as there had been with Washington, no efforts to heroicize him out of his trousers, just as there were none to popularize him with comfy sportswear.