Example sentences for: woodcarvings

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

  • The high-quality craftwork here — woodcarvings, lacquerware, and pottery — is renowned throughout Japan.

  • Sacred bugaku and kagura dances are performed at the shrine, while numerous souvenir shops do a roaring trade in the local specialties: woodcarvings, both sacred and utterly pornographic, and maple-leaf-shaped sweet buns (momiji).

  • From Tampaksiring the road opposite the turning to Tirta Empul twists through villages that specialize in the mass production of woodcarvings.

  • Just east of the riverside market are two merchants’ houses, Yoshijima-ke and Kusakabe Mingeikan, the latter turned into a superb folkcraft museum displaying local costumes, woodcarvings, and the fine, transparent lacquerware (shunkeinuri) that highlights rather than conceals the grain of the wood.

  • Most of the park’s woodcarvings date from the last half of the 19th century, but are restored and replaced when weather or worms get the better of them.


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