carve up

phrasal verb

carved up; carving up; carves up

usually disapproving

: to divide something into small parts

The once beautiful countryside has been carved up by developers.

Examples of carve up in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

The league has been carving up its rights to create additional game packages for partners, streaming services in particular. —Lucas Shaw, Fortune, 15 May 2024

Until Italy’s unification in 1861, its territory was carved up into several kingdoms, duchies and city-states, each with its own culinary practices. —Dawn Davis Sharon Radisch Soneela Nankani Emma Kehlbeck Joel Thibodeau, New York Times, 13 May 2024

Should the bid succeed, analysts anticipate the company would then be carved up. —Meg James, Los Angeles Times, 11 May 2024

Now and again some look-at-me legislator tries once more to carve up California. —Patt Morrison, Los Angeles Times, 12 Apr. 2024

Expect Volk to carve up Topuria's leg with low kicks and use his reach advantage and strength to grind out another title defense. —Elizabeth Flores, USA TODAY, 17 Feb. 2024

The erosion has washed out roads, disrupted the livelihoods for local fishermen, and carved up beaches that are major tourist attractions. —Jake Bittle, WIRED, 10 Feb. 2024

By the slice Ponder these 19 slices of the region, ranked by vacant office space, as carved up by analysts at Cushman & Wakefield … West Los Angeles: 14.9 million square feet empty out of 58 million – or 26% vacancy (fourth-highest rate in the region). —Jonathan Lansner, San Diego Union-Tribune, 21 Jan. 2024

Layering various datasets and moving census blocks around allow maps to be tweaked with surgical precision, the digital scalpel ruthlessly carving up counties, towns, and neighborhoods. —TIME, 1 Apr. 2024