How to Use carving in a Sentence

carving

noun

• She bought a small wooden carving of a Buddha.
• But no one minded as long as we were allowed to eat the crunchy, caramelized bits that fell off during carving.
  — Elizabeth Hutchison Hicklin, Southern Living, 9 Mar. 2021
• Use a sharp carving knife and fork to complete the cuts around the bone and drizzle the glaze from the slow cooker over the ham slices to serve.
  — Lizzy Briskin, chicagotribune.com, 8 Mar. 2021
• According to the lawsuit, Kolb picked up a two-pronged carving fork in the kitchen and walked slowly around the room.
  — Bob Egelko, SFChronicle.com, 1 Dec. 2020
• The event also had a virtual photo booth and a pumpkin carving contest.
  — Ben Leonard, baltimoresun.com, 21 Dec. 2020
• Big items are often the best deals, like this 1890s oak china cabinet with stained glass doors and animal carving.
  — Sarah Karnasiewicz, WSJ, 11 Dec. 2020
• One side of this room has exquisite carving — the very elegant work done by the California firm Enkenboll.
  — Judy Rose, Detroit Free Press, 12 Dec. 2020
• This is a wooden carving made from actual topographical scans that NASA made from the moon.
  — Sara Chodosh, Popular Science, 19 Nov. 2020
• And over the ensuing decades, the carving pumpkin has gotten bigger, thinner-walled, and decidedly less edible.
  — Paul Cappiello, The Courier-Journal, 18 Oct. 2024
• Her pleas to be heard, screamed through the letterbox, are no more effective than Robert’s plan to win Stephen over by treating him to the carving trolley at Wiltons.
  — Amanda Whiting, Vulture, 25 Oct. 2024
• And the earliest account of a supernova, some believe, is a stone carving in Burzaham, India.
  — Tim Childers, Popular Mechanics, 16 Nov. 2020
• There’ll be about a dozen vendors offering tiki treasures like vintage Hawaiian clothing, artwork, carvings and jewelry.
  — Sal Pizarro, The Mercury News, 14 Nov. 2024
• Pumpkin carving is also popular in Ireland, England, and other parts of Europe.
  — Emily Williams, Better Homes & Gardens, 28 Oct. 2024
• The set design was like an Atlantis dream; bold structures of pillars with fish carvings, and seaweed sculptures, with a water bubble maker aside for dramatic bubble effects.
  — Ugonnaora Owoh, Essence, 31 Oct. 2024
• More light would shine through the parts of the carving where the wax was thinnest.
  — Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 31 Aug. 2022
• This is due to a carving up of rights when the film was first sold.
  — Manori Ravindran, Variety, 19 Dec. 2022
• In addition to the footprints, the carvings on the cliffs of Doro!
  — Sam Walters, Discover Magazine, 14 Sep. 2023
• Cut out the carving for way less messy jack-o'-lanterns.
  — Jessica Leigh Mattern, Country Living, 24 Aug. 2022
• The pumpkin carving was the best part and now it is gone.
  — Katarina Avendano, Good Housekeeping, 10 Oct. 2021
• Here are some tips that can help your epic carving outlast the Day of the Dead.
  — Matt Kasson, CBS News, 10 Oct. 2022
• The carving was in the shape of an owl, its wings spread wide around my finger.
  — Devi Lockwood, Wired, 21 Sep. 2021
• The timing of the wolf carving and the wolf attack at the second camp seems a bit close.
  — Kelly McClure, Vulture, 26 Dec. 2021
• Some of the carvings on the femur bones depict a man holding a jade mask just like the one in the tomb.
  — Julia Binswanger, Smithsonian Magazine, 2 Feb. 2024
• The carving was worked on off and on over the years, but it wasn't finished until 1970.
  — Theresa Waldrop, CNN, 30 May 2021
• Joe Aronoski, 82, had just taken a tram to the carving and the top of Stone Mountain for the first time.
  — New York Times, 24 May 2021
• The fancier pieces had a lot of detailed carving on them.
  — Washington Post, 18 Apr. 2022
• Douglas made a mold using the carving and filled it with resin.
  — Ned Rozell, Anchorage Daily News, 2 Oct. 2021
• The carving is of her on her deathbed, and it is sunk up to her collarbones in his front lawn.
  — Ellyn Gaydos, Harper's Magazine, 25 June 2024
• Try your hand at ice carving on Wednesday, Feb. 1, from noon to 10 p.m. at the Village Park.
  — Scott McMurren, Anchorage Daily News, 7 Jan. 2023
• Transfer meat to a carving board and slice thinly against grain.
  — America's Test Kitchen, Chicago Tribune, 24 May 2023

Last Updated: 17 Dec 2024