Example sentences for: carves

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

  • Buchanan can't reconcile his lifelong anti-communism with the anti-interventionist philosophy that supposedly unites his book, so when it comes to the Cold War he carves out an absurd exception: The extreme evil of communism, he says, warranted military action in places as far-flung as Vietnam or as minuscule as Nicaragua.

  • Working nimbly, Satan carves up this guy's torso with arcane writing and, using scalpels and scissors and other handy hospital accessories, crucifies him on the ceiling.

  • On the way back toward Furnace Creek lies Artist’s Drive, where the road (one way only from south to north) carves its path through a canyon of multi-colored rocks, culminating in the very aptly named Artist’s Palette.

  • It is certainly the ambition of the biologically oriented majority of psychiatrists to produce a manual of mental disorders which, as the saying goes, "carves nature at its joints"--one which lists diseases that are each traceable to a unique, identifiable malfunction in the brain.


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