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
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Now and again some look-at-me legislator tries once more to carve up California.
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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
Several Wall Street analysts believe that carving up Paramount Global for piece parts would not necessarily be in the best interests of shareholders.
—Todd Spangler, Variety, 21 Mar. 2024
The West Bank, which is slightly smaller than the state of Delaware, was already carved up by checkpoints and roadblocks, including a 450-mile-long barrier that snakes through Palestinian land.
—Claire Parker, Washington Post, 11 Mar. 2024
By the time his ambitious health care legislation was introduced and carved up and cursed and left for dead and revived and compromised and passed and finally signed into law, the whole process had taken a toll on President Barack Obama.
—Peter Baker, New York Times, 22 Mar. 2024
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
Several Wall Street analysts believe that carving up Paramount Global for piece parts would not necessarily be in the best interests of shareholders.
—Todd Spangler, Variety, 21 Mar. 2024
The West Bank, which is slightly smaller than the state of Delaware, was already carved up by checkpoints and roadblocks, including a 450-mile-long barrier that snakes through Palestinian land.
—Claire Parker, Washington Post, 11 Mar. 2024
By the time his ambitious health care legislation was introduced and carved up and cursed and left for dead and revived and compromised and passed and finally signed into law, the whole process had taken a toll on President Barack Obama.
—Peter Baker, New York Times, 22 Mar. 2024
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“Carve up.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/carve%20up. Accessed 29 Apr. 2024.
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