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Example sentences for "carve"

Lexicographically close words:
carucates; carued; carum; caruncle; carunculated; carved; carven; carver; carvers; carves
  1. Was he glad or sad, Who knew to carve in such a fashion?

  2. Those lovers please me best who do not carve their mistress's name on the bark of any tree, who confide it to no echo, and who, while they sleep, are haunted by the fear that they may utter it in a dream.

  3. I want to sing of it and paint it, to carve it and write of it, to be loved by it as I love it; I want what cannot be and never can be.

  4. And who does not know the mocking devils and quaint satyrs that the humorous sculptor will carve among his fruits and flowers?

  5. It is obvious, therefore, that the glyphs are not the four calendar year-signs and reflection shows, indeed, that it would have been quite superfluous to carve these repeatedly on a stela.

  6. My swords are tempered for every speech, For fencing wit, or to carve a breach Through old abuses the world condones.

  7. To carve it to pattern I think you propose.

  8. Now," he cried, "let one man in Ulster match his deeds with mine, or else hold ye your peace and let me carve the boar!

  9. He now spoke from his couch in answer to Ailill: "How should the boar be divided, O son of Datho, except by appointing to carve it him who is best in deeds of arms?

  10. So Logary arose and said, "Ket shall never carve the boar for all of us.

  11. Still the contest," said Ket, "or I shall carve the boar.

  12. I willed them that if they should happen to be distressed in any of those places, that then they should carve over the letters or name, a cross † in this form; but we found no such sign of distress.

  13. R] By his side a sturdy live-oak Spread its green, protecting branches; Quick he strove to carve the token Which should speak to all who followed.

  14. He carve her totem at the top of the pole, then his totem and those of the family are carved below.

  15. The king was to aid the pontiff, and, in return, was to carve thrones for his own younger children out of the confiscated realms of Philip.

  16. Many women carve excellently, but as there is a feeling that it is a difficult thing to do, a clever guest who knows his hostess well, will sometimes beg leave to take her place for the performance of this task.

  17. Already he had learnt how to decorate his implements with artistic skill, and to carve the handles of his knives with the figures of animals.

  18. No; he must seek to carve out a fortune for himself.

  19. Grey will carve out a career for himself.

  20. Then followed a few remarks from Mr. Parlin upon our duty to the Giver of all good things; after which he began at last to carve the turkey.

  21. Now, before I carve the turkey, what if I ask the question all around what we feel most thankful for to-day?

  22. He engaged Anton Avernier, an image maker, to carve the statuettes and figures which occur in the course of the work.

  23. He was the son of Oswy, the friend and patron of St. Wilfrid, who loved art so much that he brought workmen from Italy to build churches and carve stone, and he decided in favour of the Roman party at the famous Synod of Whitby.

  24. Hence they loved to carve their names or their initials on the lintels of their doors or on the walls of their houses with the date.

  25. And Miss Rita will sit opposite me and carve the chicken.

  26. Take this to the sideboard and carve it," she added, addressing Elizabeth in a tone of careless command.

  27. And so I'm the wife of Ilam Carve that's supposed to be buried in Westminster Abbey and royalty went to his funeral!

  28. Of course, Mr. Carve will do all that's necessary.

  29. So it's true Mr. Carve never comes to England?

  30. Mr. Cyrus Carve gave me a very important piece of information, and it is solely on the strength of that information that I have invited you all to come here this afternoon.

  31. And the main point is (to CARVE)--Are you Ilam Carve or are you Albert Shawn?

  32. CARVE jumps up, but is inarticulate, though very favourably interested.

  33. And you may depend on it that whether they'd quarrelled or not, Cyrus Carve will want to know why he wasn't informed of the illness at once.

  34. You don't seem to realize that the death of a man like Ilam Carve will make something of a stir in the world.

  35. Old Carve would have got eight hundred for that like a shot.

  36. Anybody would say you didn't care a cent whether I'm Ilam Carve or whether I'm somebody else.

  37. After walking about, CARVE sits down on another chair.

  38. To carve thy fullest thought, what though Time was not granted?

  39. To carve it, cut in even thin slices off from the whole of the upper part or top, in the same manner as from a rolled roast of beef, as in the direction of the figs.

  40. Then again many carve a ham by first cutting from 1 to 2, then across the other way from 3 to 4.

  41. Carve across in slices, and serve with tomato sauce.

  42. To carve a goose, first begin by separating the leg from the body, by putting the fork into the small end of the limb, pressing it closely to the body, then passing the knife under at 2, and turning the leg back as you cut through the joint.

  43. In either case, carve them very neatly, and strip every particle of skin and fat from the legs, wings and breasts; bruise the bodies well, and put them with the skin and other trimmings into a very clean stewpan.

  44. To carve it, first run the knife down and along the upper side of the fish from 1 to 2, then again on the lower side from 3 to 4.

  45. The correct way to carve this roast is to cut diagonally from fig.

  46. When the duck is full size, carve it like a goose; first cutting it in slices from the breast, beginning close to the wing and proceeding upward towards the breast bone, as is represented by the lines 1 to 2.

  47. To carve a baked mackerel, first remove the head and tail by cutting downward at 1 and 2; then split them down the back, so as to serve each person a part of each side piece.

  48. Having skinned a pair of cold fowls, remove the fat, and carve them as if for eating, cut all the flesh entirely from the bones, and either mince it or divide it into small shreds.

  49. The best way to carve a tongue, is to cut it across in round slices, beginning at the middle.

  50. If you have sufficient skill, carve the name or initials of some one whom you wish to honor.

  51. Carve at table by slicing off each end, then cutting the middle in sharp, long points, letting the knife go half way through the melon at every stroke.

  52. Nor with the least discrimination relates how we should carve hares, and how cut up a hen.

  53. I will carve you a second county with my sword.

  54. Yet, if I cannot with the help of the one and the other carve out a principality as long and as wide as Heritzburg, I am not John Tzerclas!


  55. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "carve" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    amputate; apportion; assemble; bisect; book; butcher; calendar; calibrate; canal; carve; cast; catalog; chalk; channel; character; chase; chisel; chop; chronicle; cleave; convert; crack; crease; create; crimp; cultivate; cut; dado; dike; dissect; ditch; divide; docket; engrave; enroll; enter; etch; excise; extract; fashion; figure; file; fissure; fix; flute; forge; form; found; frame; furrow; gash; gouge; grave; groove; grow; gully; hack; halve; harvest; hatch; hew; impanel; incise; index; inscribe; insert; jot; knead; lance; line; list; lithograph; log; machine; mark; mill; mine; mint; minute; model; mold; mould; moulder; mouldy; note; parcel; pare; part; partition; pleat; plow; poll; portion; post; print; process; prune; pump; rabbet; raise; rear; record; refine; register; rend; rifle; rive; rut; saw; scissor; score; scrape; scratch; scribe; sculpture; sever; shape; share; slash; slice; slit; sliver; smelt; snip; solder; split; stamp; stipple; streak; striate; sunder; tabulate; tailor; tape; tear; tool; trench; trough; weld; whittle; work; wrinkle; write


    Some related collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    carved wood; carved wooden