How to Use carve up in a Sentence

carve up

phrasal verb

• The hope is that Neely can one day carve up batters in the Bronx the way those two did.
  — Gary Phillips, New York Daily News, 11 June 2024
• Those who want to divide and carve up this country say no.
  — Umar Farooq, Foreign Affairs, 9 Mar. 2017
• Enter Email Sign Up The segment of the roster destined to be carved up is the left side of the defense.
  — Conor Ryan, BostonGlobe.com, 16 June 2023
• But Nebraska has a solid unit, and Sanders carved up the Cornhuskers.
  — Jon Wilner | Bay Area News Group, oregonlive, 12 Sep. 2023
• The best wagon for carving up a mountain road—if the family can hang on.
  — Frank Markus, Car and Driver, 31 Aug. 2023
• The men carved up the buffalo, quickly reducing it to nothing but head, spine and guts.
  — Michael E. Miller, Washington Post, 15 Sep. 2023
• Bruce will come upon his mother carving up the body for easy transport and learn something of the bigger picture.
  — Robert Lloyd, Los Angeles Times, 4 Jan. 2024
• Even with Brink limited to six minutes, Stanford carved up the Ducks’ soft 2-3 zone and swung the ball with precision to create open looks.
  — Danny Emerman, The Mercury News, 19 Jan. 2024
• Remember, Doncic just carved up the Suns like a Christmas ham for 50 points and 15 assists in that first meeting this season last month, which the Mavs won.
  — Duane Rankin, The Arizona Republic, 25 Jan. 2024
• The blade measures in at seven inches, a manageable size that's also the perfect length for carving up a rib roast.
  — goodhousekeeping.com, 28 Apr. 2023
• From only attempting to surf once or twice before and starting on a soft top to switching to a hard top and carving up and down on the wave and barrelling… in just 2 days!
  — Emily J. Shiffer, Women's Health, 8 Sep. 2023
• To carve up this Insta-worthy display, use a drill to punch the constellation's holes and connect the dots with a standard blade.
  — Megan Stein, Peoplemag, 7 Oct. 2023
• So carve up one of our favorite Southern treats, and enjoy the flavors of pork tenderloin in any of these wonderful recipes.
  — Southern Living Editors, Southern Living, 15 Oct. 2023
• Now and again some look-at-me legislator tries once more to carve up California.
  — Patt Morrison, Los Angeles Times, 12 Apr. 2024
• Much of the rap world has crowned Lamar as the man who runs the genre and shut down his nemesis, carving up someone he’s hated for years in a public humiliation.
  — Michael Butler, Miami Herald, 30 May 2024
• The problem was getting carved up for nearly five yards per attempt on the ground and allowing a third-down conversion rate of just a shade under 43%.
  — Eddie Timanus, USA TODAY, 28 Apr. 2023
• Bulldozers carved up the landscape, leaving giant stumps and deep road scars behind.
  — Jim Robbins Ian C. Bates, New York Times, 15 Aug. 2023
• Butchers in different parts of the country had slightly different ways of carving up pigs and cows.
  — Robert F. Moss, Southern Living, 6 Sep. 2023
• Kamenetz said the tax credits prohibited carving up the main worship space for apartments.
  — Jacques Kelly, Baltimore Sun, 27 Jan. 2024
• By the 1880s, as explorers and shipping routes carved up the world, a fabulous array of exotic bird skins flooded the plumage market.
  — Mary Jo Dilonardo, Treehugger, 25 May 2023
• This featherweight flyer carves up twisty roads far more eagerly than any other wagon in the bunch.
  — Frank Markus, Car and Driver, 31 Aug. 2023
• 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
• When the day calls for it, the Flying Spur can carve up curvy stretches of road with aplomb without compromising its serene cruising attitude.
  — Drew Dorian, Car and Driver, 28 Apr. 2023
• But few pitchers in the sport carve up lineups with such precision, inducing weak contact with ease on a near-every-start basis.
  — Michael Shapiro, Chron, 28 Apr. 2023
• Kandahar’s rival warlords carved up the province with a patchwork of checkpoints, where robbery and rape were common.
  — Matthieu Aikins Victor J. Blue Peter Ganim Krish Seenivasan Steven Szczesniak, New York Times, 22 May 2024
• Like it or not, many of those pumpkins are destined to be carved up, turned into jack-o’-lanterns and, if your neighborhood is anything like mine, left to the voracious appetites of wily squirrels.
  — Becky Krystal, Washington Post, 23 Oct. 2023
• In his prime, Elliott was an every-down back capable of carving up defenses in a variety of ways.
  — Conor Ryan, BostonGlobe.com, 15 Aug. 2023
• Trevor Williams and the Nationals’ bullpen carved up Baltimore’s bats, holding the Orioles to three hits — all singles — with 12 strikeouts and zero walks in 31 plate appearances.
  — Jacob Calvin Meyer, Baltimore Sun, 8 May 2024
• The 29-year-old right-hander carved up the Angels’ lineup with his elite five-pitch pitch mix — mostly his 95 mph cutter, sharp slider and devastating curveball.
  — Jacob Calvin Meyer, Baltimore Sun, 28 Mar. 2024
• Further restrictions risk carving up parts of the global economy.
  — Bloomberg News, Hartford Courant, 30 Apr. 2024

Last Updated: 26 Oct 2024