Example sentences for: carved

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

  • Nicola Pisano’s intricately carved and recently restored 13th-century Fontana Maggiore (Great Fountain) has long been everyone’s favorite point of rendezvous, in the shadow of the 14th-century cathedral.

  • Nearby is Cova d’En Xoroi a cave carved in the steep cliff that has been converted into a disco.

  • 3 m (37 ft) high, its columns, beams, and cornices are carved with a menagerie of dragons, phoenixes, lions, and tigers in a field of clouds, peonies, Chinese sages, and angels, all gilded and painted in red, gold, blue, and green.

  • Proceeds from sales of carved ducks go to handicap children.

  • The 700-year-old Wieliczka Salt Mine (near Kraków) — where you first descend 378 steps, then traipse through long corridors and see chapels and figures (including the Seven Dwarves) entirely carved out of salt, and finally zoom up to ground level via a fast and slightly shaky bare-bones elevator — is sure to be cool for kids.


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