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sculpt

verb

sculpted; sculpting; sculpts
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Examples of sculpt in a Sentence

She carefully sculpted the wood. The children painted and sculpted all morning. Sculpt your back with push-ups.
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The EmSculpt Neo, a body sculpting treatment equal to doing 20,000 crunches in just 30 minutes, has been all the rage among celebrities. Essence, 5 Dec. 2025 The faces of the four terracotta characters Samy had sculpted were vaguely familiar. Literary Hub, 5 Dec. 2025 Gehry transformed our idea of what was architecturally possible, shaping and sculpting buildings with the same software used to design fighter jets. Fiona Sinclair Scott, CNN Money, 5 Dec. 2025 Popular experience was proving increasingly manipulable, whether through mind-altering pharmaceuticals, body-sculpting surgical procedures, or culture-hacking information technologies. Tim Griffin, Artforum, 1 Dec. 2025 See All Example Sentences for sculpt

Word History

Etymology

French sculpter, alteration of obsolete sculper, from Latin sculpere

First Known Use

1864, in the meaning defined above

Time Traveler
The first known use of sculpt was in 1864

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“Sculpt.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/sculpt. Accessed 8 Dec. 2025.

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