Example sentences for: carvings

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

  • They know by style of face-painting and headdress where a singsing dancer is from, and they can look at designs on carvings or woven string bags and say where the work originated.

  • The best carvings are superb sculptures, but even the simplest, cheapest article can make an appealing souvenir.

  • It's obvious from the beautiful carvings of teeth on the surface that we had a good instruction in dental anatomy.

  • The Japanese director, Hayao Miyazaki, who spent three years on Princess Mononoke and is reported to have done 70 percent of its paintings himself, seems to work from the outside in: to begin with the curve of the earth, then the mossy hills, the watercolor foliage, the nubby stones, the whorls on the wood, the meticulous carvings on a teacup.

  • In its lovely mountain setting on the Cumberland Sound, this peaceful Inuit town is a good place to buy Inuit carvings — and to start your viewing of harbor seals and the elusive beluga whales.


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