notching

present participle of notch

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of Synonyms for notching
Verb
  • Nostalgia is a powerful driver, and that gives it a good chance at carving out a place again in the toy world.
    Hugh Cameron, MSNBC Newsweek, 21 Oct. 2025
  • Guests have been carving their names and initials into the wooden tops for decades.
    Abby Price, Southern Living, 20 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • Brandy and Monica were on their feet for almost every song, grooving alongside a captivating ensemble of dancers who flowed through hip hop and contemporary dance styles.
    Tamia Fowlkes, jsonline.com, 18 Oct. 2025
  • Rodgers is grooving in Arthur Smith’s system that plays to his strengths.
    Steven Louis Goldstein, New York Times, 16 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • Jason Dawson of the Children's Cancer Centre chiseling the bricks around the time capsule.
    Patrick Smith, NBC news, 27 Aug. 2025
Verb
  • Hundreds more members of law enforcement –– local, state and federal –– worked the case, at one point searching more than 500 homes and 1,000 vehicles and chasing hundreds of leads.
    Dakin Andone, CNN Money, 26 Oct. 2025
  • The man told the officer that a woman was chasing him and trying to hit him with her vehicle.
    Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 26 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • The new trailer for the doc teases its massive scope, tracing Murphy’s rise from a stand-up sensation and Saturday Night Live star to a performer capable of completely dominating the cultural landscape.
    Jon Blistein, Rolling Stone, 22 Oct. 2025
  • While Big Band music has roots tracing back to New Orleans, its major hubs included New York, Chicago and Kansas City.
    Alexa Stone Updated October 21, Kansas City Star, 21 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • The center of the nebula plays host to a population of energetic young stars that are busily sculpting dense pillars of dust with their radiation.
    Anthony Wood, Space.com, 19 Oct. 2025
  • Known primarily for sculpting the neoclassical Bethesda Fountain in New York City’s Central Park, Stebbins also created deeply personal works, including an 1870 bust of Cushman, which features among 14 works on display at Huntington’s Heckscher Museum of Art.
    Brendan Ruberry, semafor.com, 16 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • Bowen led the club in receiving big chances last season (13, scoring five of them).
    Anantaajith Raghuraman, New York Times, 23 Oct. 2025
  • Los Angeles Lakers superstar Luka Doncic put on quite the show on NBA Opening Night, scoring 43 points to go along with 12 rebounds and nine assists in a dominant performance against the Golden State Warriors.
    Noah Camras, MSNBC Newsweek, 22 Oct. 2025
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“Notching.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/notching. Accessed 29 Oct. 2025.

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