How to Use carve up in a Sentence

carve up

verb

• These are just two different ways to carve up the year.
  — ABC News, 19 June 2026
• Against this backdrop is a campaign field that will be carved up six ways from Sunday.
  — Laura Washington, Chicago Tribune, 25 Mar. 2026
• In this case, that language carves up the world at the joints, that language has some kind of authority.
  — Caleb Crain, Harpers Magazine, 24 Mar. 2026
• Maintenance crews carve up the streets while pedestrians squeeze by, each person absorbed in their own agendas.
  — Françoise Mouly, New Yorker, 30 Mar. 2026
• Though light on star power, the Warriors had no issue carving up the Grizzlies.
  — Joseph Dycus, Mercury News, 26 Feb. 2026
• So the Allies carved up Berlin into four occupation zones.
  — Encyclopedia Britannica, 24 June 2026
• Distributors have largely vied for pieces of sports media by carving up those rights among streaming platforms.
  — Hannah Rabinowitz, CNN Money, 9 Apr. 2026
• Herbert carved up the Chargers secondary in the red-zone seven-on-seven period.
  — Daniel Popper, New York Times, 4 Aug. 2026
• Trubisky carved up the Jets defense, which had a makeshift secondary after several injuries.
  — Antwan Staley, New York Daily News, 4 Jan. 2026
• In the Talmud, however, life after age twenty is carved up into decade-long intervals.
  — Shayla Love, New Yorker, 25 Feb. 2026
• And so, as things sit right now, the districts that were carved up by the legislature in special session this summer are the districts that people will run in.
  — Jack Fink, CBS News, 30 Nov. 2025
• Spheres of influence aren’t—the world is both too interconnected to carve up and too fragmented to hold together.
  — Ian Bremmer, Time, 6 Jan. 2026
• Not just by dint of wealth, though that helps, but because the region is carved up into separate jurisdictions with seemingly no logic.
  — Meghan Daum, The Atlantic, 15 May 2026
• Mayfield also carved up the Jets’ defense during the Buccaneers’ two-minute offense.
  — Antwan Staley, New York Daily News, 13 Aug. 2026
• Now there could be an M&A frenzy in the works as prospective buyers plot ways to carve up his representation empire.
  — Ethan Millman, HollywoodReporter, 15 Feb. 2026
• The Royals had just four hits against Phillies starter Jesus Luzardo, who carved up the hosts’ starting lineup.
  — Kansas City Star, 5 July 2026
• Both players can combine to carve up the intermediate areas of the field while Pierce also stretches the defense.
  — Jourdan Rodrigue, New York Times, 16 Mar. 2026
• The rookie left-hander carved up the White Sox over six shutout innings, holding Chicago to just two hits and a walk while striking out six.
  — Mac Cerullo, Boston Herald, 7 July 2026
• The Wizards jumped out to a 20-12 lead, carving up Brooklyn’s defense with clean ball movement and open looks.
  — C.j. Holmes, New York Daily News, 3 Jan. 2026
• That's partly because Indianapolis would no longer be one compact district, but would be carved up into four sprawling districts.
  — Kayla Dwyer, IndyStar, 1 Dec. 2025
• Lee helped convict a Connecticut airline pilot accused of carving up his stewardess wife with a chainsaw and running the pieces through a wood chipper.
  — Edmund H. Mahony, Hartford Courant, 27 Mar. 2026
• These rising rates can force Hoosiers like Emerson Harper to carve up the household budget and fiddle with the thermostat.
  — Sophie Hartley, IndyStar, 21 Jan. 2026
• Using hundreds of elephants to haul artillery, Cornwallis invaded Mysore and carved up the sultanate.
  — Daniel Immerwahr, New Yorker, 4 May 2026
• For every $1 a customer spends on a chocolate bar, only around 6 cents goes to farmers, with the rest carved up among those who mill the cocoa, make the chocolate, and sell it to consumers.
  — Colette Davidson, Christian Science Monitor, 22 Aug. 2026
• After the Ottoman Empire fell, the region had been carved up, and the Jabaras now hailed not from Syria but from Lebanon.
  — Rozina Ali, New Yorker, 21 Aug. 2026
• With pinpoint passing, Bryce Young carved up the first-team secondary with several long touchdown passes on a day when the offense got the best of the defense.
  — Joseph Person, New York Times, 30 July 2026
• The first unanimous ruling found that the map itself, which carves up Kansas City, was legal and did not violate the state constitution.
  — Kacen Bayless, Kansas City Star, 13 May 2026
• Kiley’s district, which stretches from east of Sacramento across the state and down to Death Valley, will be carved up and pieces will go into six different districts.
  — David Lightman, Sacbee.com, 16 Dec. 2025
• Films that accompanied the curriculum also showed the Netsilik disemboweling a seal and carving up a caribou.
  — Jonathan Zimmerman, The Atlantic, 23 Dec. 2025
• Things get increasingly bleak, as the family dog’s heart medicine runs out and Jason has to put him out of his misery, and then — in doomsday prepper mode — carves up the body and puts it in the freezer just in case food gets dire.
  — William Earl, Variety, 8 Aug. 2026