Words similar to carve

Example sentences for: carve

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

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