Example sentences for: carving

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

  • 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.

  • The rift--with the state lawyers favoring more aggressive actions against Microsoft, such as carving the company up or forcing it to share its operating system code--has been previously reported on in the NYT .

  • Peliatan is known for its dances and gamelan music as well as painting and carving — “parasite carvings” (see page 92) are a recent specialty.

  • It is an explosion of mosaics, tiles, stained glass, enamel, sculpture, and carving — a wildly audacious outpouring of contours and colors.

  • A century later it became the repository of La Moreneta, the Black Madonna, said to be a carving by St. Luke later hidden by St. Peter.


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