carve

as in to sculpt
to create a three-dimensional representation of (something) using solid material carved a statue out of rare marble

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Recent Examples of carve A number of attendees expressed a sense of Filipino pride at the event, while the beats on the dance floor — carved out amid food stalls and aisles of groceries — held others in its thrall. Kate Bradshaw, Mercury News, 7 Nov. 2025 The room became her command center, empowering Gilmore to carve out her own space to think, organize, and act. Time, 6 Nov. 2025 In cooler weather, carve your own art, history, culture, and shopping trail through the sister towns of Battleford and North Battleford. Billie Cohen, AFAR Media, 6 Nov. 2025 But his mother had already carved her own path into the record books decades earlier. Dave Smith, Fortune, 5 Nov. 2025 See All Example Sentences for carve
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sculpt
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  • Participants can sculpt with air-dry clay, paint on canvas, or craft a collage or mixed-media piece such as a design vision board.
    Staff Author, Southern Living, 9 Nov. 2025
  • Today, that can mean a stair railing sculpted from cast bronze or a chandelier made of 450 shards of selenite (both, by the way, are Henault commissions).
    Kathryn O’Shea-Evans, Robb Report, 8 Nov. 2025

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“Carve.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/carve. Accessed 12 Nov. 2025.

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