Example sentences for: carved

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

  • The new complex includes the Museo de Arte Religioso (Museum of Religious Art), which features a collection of Puerto Rican santos, carved religious figures and icons.

  • In the Kannon Hall of this temple is the largest wooden devotional figure in the country: a statue of the “Eleven-Faced Goddess of Mercy,” some 10 m (33 ft) high, carved from a single tree trunk and covered in gold leaf.

  • Behind the colonnades on the Middle Terrace, to the left of the ramp, are carved scenes depicting a trade mission bringing myrrh and incense from Egypt’s neighbor Punt, now Somalia.

  • The most impressive feature is the “Tree of Jesse,” an elaborately carved, gilded and painted 18th-century wood sculpture on the northern wall.

  • Its façade of yellow sandstone is richly carved with a fine bell tower, and mock Corinthian columns dignifying each of the twin entranceways.


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