How to Use carve in a Sentence

carve

verb

• Who is going to carve the turkey?
• He carved while I made the gravy.
• We carved an ice sculpture.
• And at the end of it all, guests can carve the roast beast.
  — Cailey Rizzo, Travel + Leisure, 3 Dec. 2021
• All our guys have to earn a role and have to carve it out.
  — cleveland, 7 Aug. 2022
• In the lower half, the star S1 carved out a glowing cave of dust.
  — Julia Musto, Fox News, 12 July 2023
• To carve out space for us in a sport that’s long tried to keep us out.
  — Kimberly Wilson, Essence, 15 May 2025
• Remove from the grill, carve out the bone and slice the meat into pieces.
  — Maria Pasquale, CNN, 2 Feb. 2022
• The best way to do this is to carve out your own market niche.
  — Abdo Riani, Forbes, 22 Apr. 2022
• Just being able to carve out a role in this league is hard to do.
  — Chris Biderman, Sacramento Bee, 8 Apr. 2024
• And the rest of the industry is trying to carve out their own pieces of the pie.
  — Alex Weprin, The Hollywood Reporter, 1 Sep. 2022
• But the league has proven adept at carving out ways to reach new crowds.
  — Brian Steinberg, Variety, 8 Feb. 2024
• The storm carved a path nearly a mile wide and six miles long through Joplin.
  — Josh Hammer, MSNBC Newsweek, 1 Apr. 2025
• Some of these proud miners carved sculptures out of the salt.
  — Rick Steves, Chicago Tribune, 30 May 2023
• The Red Raiders utilized their tight ends to carve up the Longhorn defense in the middle of the field.
  — Dallas News, 24 Sep. 2022
• Or better still, space — the space to stretch, the space to fail, the space to carve a passage for myself.
  — David L. Ulin, Los Angeles Times, 14 Apr. 2022
• Use it to carve a block of cheese, slice a pear, and extract the gel from leaves of aloe vera.
  — Michael Calore, Wired, 18 Nov. 2021
• Arte should be carving statues of those two for the home plate plaza.
  — Los Angeles Times, 22 July 2023
• Many were carved from lignum vitae, one of the world’s hardest woods.
  — Sean Kingsley, Smithsonian Magazine, 11 Jan. 2024
• Baylor isn’t as easy to carve up as, say, Texas Tech, though.
  — Nick Moyle, San Antonio Express-News, 29 Oct. 2021
• Riz Ahmed is carving out a niche in the action-thriller space.
  — Samantha Bergeson, IndieWire, 13 June 2025
• Watch the video above to learn how to choose the perfect pumpkin for carving.
  — Maryal Miller Carter, USA TODAY, 14 Sep. 2024
• It’s not easy to carve a case and bracelet links out of crystal sapphire.
  — Carol Besler, Forbes, 27 May 2022
• They were painted on walls and cars, carved into bridges and drawn in chalk on the ground.
  — Jason O'Bryan, Robb Report, 27 July 2024
• This one-man show follows Aldridge's quest to carve his own path.
  — Gege Reed, The Courier-Journal, 31 Jan. 2022
• Expect more of this cross fire over how to carve up the state’s gambling turf.
  — Joe Garofoli, San Francisco Chronicle, 24 Oct. 2021
• Yes, the Knicks are trying to carve out salary cap space to make a big move in free agency.
  — Matt Eppers, USA TODAY, 24 June 2022
• The Pels could carve out enough room under the tax to give him a reasonable deal.
  — Jon Krawczynski, The Athletic, 7 Jan. 2025
• Police and fire unions have been carved out of anti-union laws for decades.
  — Binghui Huang, The Indianapolis Star, 4 Mar. 2024
• To build one, start a weekly wins Notion board logging one success and one tweak, and carve out 10% of every project for low-risk experiments.
  — Rolling Stone Culture Council, Rolling Stone, 11 June 2025