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Example sentences for: carve

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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.
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.
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 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.