She carefully sculpted the wood.
The children painted and sculpted all morning. Sculpt your back with push-ups.
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The center's main tower features the words from President Obama's speech on the 50th anniversary of the Selma to Montgomery, Alabama marches – stamped on the ceiling and sculpted with concrete into the outer walls – offering a look into the past and hope for future from the South Side of Chicago.—Irika Sargent, CBS News, 4 June 2026 The team gathered a short list of about 150 objects, including the desk on which Thomas Jefferson wrote the Declaration of Independence and the four-foot model of the Statue of Liberty sculpted by Frederic Auguste Bartholdi in 1875.—Mike Stunson, USA Today, 3 June 2026 The veteran actor said years spent trying to sculpt the perfect leading-man physique have left him dealing with serious physical consequences decades later.—Stephanie Giang-Paunon, FOXNews.com, 3 June 2026 Some of the galaxy's most spectacular stellar nurseries resemble giant cosmic wagon wheels, with spoke-like structures that scientists say were sculpted by shockwaves from stellar explosions and powerful stellar winds.—Samantha Mathewson, Space.com, 1 June 2026 See All Example Sentences for sculpt
Word History
Etymology
French sculpter, alteration of obsolete sculper, from Latin sculpere