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Example sentences for: carve

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The exceptions to conservative orthodoxy that these Republicans carve out are victim-specific, narrowly tailored to their own miseries.
Anyone can enjoy knowing how a $10 bill came to be called a sawbuck (the Roman numeral "X" that appeared on early notes reminded people of the wooden sawbuck used in carpentry), or how the word "robot" came into English (it comes from the Czech word "robota," meaning "drudgery," and was part of the title of a widely popular 1920 Czech play), or how the Indo-European root for "beech tree," "bhago-," gave us the word "book" (Germanic tribes used beech staves to carve runes on).
The cover story debates whether NATO's goal should be to carve up Kosovo or administer it as a protectorate.
We carve "equal justice under law" on our courthouse walls.
Scientists found a new candidate for the missing link between apes and humans . The 2.5 million-year-old creature, dubbed Australopithecus garhi , evidently used stone tools to carve up the animals it killed and had much bigger teeth than its apelike ancestors.