Carving is an English word with synonyms like sculpture or cutting. Below you'll find 10+ example sentences showing how it's used in practice.
Carving in a sentence
Related words
Carving meaning
- A carved object.
- The act or craft of producing a carved object.
Synonyms of Carving
Using Carving
- The main meaning on this page is: A carved object. | The act or craft of producing a carved object.
- Useful related words include: sculpture, cutting, creating by removal, art.
- In the example corpus, carving often appears in combinations such as: carving out, pumpkin carving, the carving.
Context around Carving
- Average sentence length in these examples: 25.4 words
- Position in the sentence: 9 start, 6 middle, 5 end
- Sentence types: 20 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Carving
- In this selection, "carving" usually appears near the start of the sentence. The average example has 25.4 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, chip, wood, ice, kerbschnitt, demonstrations and competition stand out and add context to how "carving" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include a spectacular carving of human and add any carving juices from. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "carving" sits close to words such as abnormal, apologise and arteta, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with carving
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
Activities at the retreat include wood-carving. (7 words)
Carving complete, he set off to paddle across the nearest river. (11 words)
Each is carving a unique path toward sustained growth and profitability. (11 words)
Chip carving in wood Chip carving or chip-carving, kerbschnitt in German, is a style of carving in which knives or chisels are used to remove small chips of the material from a flat surface in a single piece. (39 words)
See the amazing Aritian Ice team in action Saturday as they offer live ice carving demonstrations in Memorial Park from noon until 4 p.m. Participants can help choose what the sculpture creates in the ice speed carving competition. (39 words)
At one point on that December night, they reached a particularly large rock outcropping and swept aside the quickly accumulating snow to reveal an earlier discovery: a spectacular carving of human figures with outstretched arms above a boat. (38 words)
Example sentences (20)
Chip carving in wood Chip carving or chip-carving, kerbschnitt in German, is a style of carving in which knives or chisels are used to remove small chips of the material from a flat surface in a single piece.
See the amazing Aritian Ice team in action Saturday as they offer live ice carving demonstrations in Memorial Park from noon until 4 p.m. Participants can help choose what the sculpture creates in the ice speed carving competition.
Soho’s Wands and Wizard Exploratorium is hosting lantern-carving sessions for adults and children, and sculptor is doing virtual pumpkin carving workshops.
Carving main Carving is based on the shape of the ski itself; when the ski is rotated onto its edge, the pattern cut into its side causes it to bend into an arc.
Hardstone carving is the term used in art history for objects produced by the specialised carving techniques, and the techniques themselves.
He also began doing more carving, rather than the method popular with his contemporaries, that of modeling in clay or plaster which would be cast in metal, and by 1908 he worked almost exclusively by carving.
Activities at the retreat include wood-carving.
Add any carving juices from the meat to the gravy before reheating to piping hot just before serving.
A pivotal scene in the film shows Edmond Dantes, played by Caviezel, slowly carving the phrase “God will give me justice” into the wall of his prison cell — showing how long he has wasted away in captivity.
Around the showfield are over 200 trade stands, a companion dog show, chainsaw carving and a bandstand hosting a variety of bands throughout the afternoon.
As we wait for further news, “Creepshow” continues to pay homage to its roots while carving out a distinctive legacy in the world of horror.
At one point on that December night, they reached a particularly large rock outcropping and swept aside the quickly accumulating snow to reveal an earlier discovery: a spectacular carving of human figures with outstretched arms above a boat.
Big Diomede today is occupied by military units, but there’s still a small population on Little Diomede of Iñupiat, an Indigenous Alaska people known especially for their skill in ivory carving.
But it seems that Kitty's is carving out a reputation for some stellar food in its own right and has garnered some excellent reviews online.
By offloading non-core assets and pouring resources into regulated utilities, AEP keeps its operations lean and carving a path toward future growth.
By Palestine Chronicle Staff Rozan al-Borno, 23, is a biotechnology graduate from Gaza who invested her talent in the arts of wood carving.
Carving complete, he set off to paddle across the nearest river.
Carving up the city into council districts ushered in a generation of Latino elected officials.
Despite carving out a strong standing in the NBA centered on his defense, Caruso never had earned an All-Defensive selection before this season.
Each is carving a unique path toward sustained growth and profitability.
Common combinations with carving
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- carving out 51×
- pumpkin carving 15×
- the carving 11×
- carving and 9×
- carving up 9×
- by carving 8×
- of carving 7×
- and carving 7×
- carving of 6×
- is carving 6×