Example sentences for: carving

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

  • You’ll also see a rare male figure among the collection, and the beautiful Harp Player — a more complex carving in the same style.

  • The 1260 carving of biblical themes has clear links to French Gothic sculpture, while drawing on models from Roman and Etruscan sarcophagi — a Herculean Daniel and a Mary inspired by heads of Juno and Phaedra.

  • These offshore cays — budding starlets of Cuban joint-tourism initiatives with foreign companies — are reached by a road carving through pineapple orchards and the town of Morón, which is not as idiotically named as you might think.

  • Fearing the Europeans would start carving up Bengal, the nawab (Muslim prince) Siraj-ud-daula set up an attack on the British settlement in Calcutta on the hot day of 20 June, 1756.

  • A Taleju Temple, which is located through the Golden Gate at the far end of two courtyards, is closed to non-Hindus, but you can admire the carving on its door and get a peek past the attendant soldier to the ornate interior.


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