carve up

Example Sentences

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Division II programs tend to carve up their 36 scholarships for multiple players.

From Seattle Times • May 28, 2024

As they spit out vast amounts of radiation, they carve up their environment much like, well, a chicken.

From Science Daily • Dec. 21, 2023

And then, after slavery finally was abolished - the slave trade - European colonial powers looked at a big empty map of Africa and carved it up like you carve up a pizza pie.

From Salon • Jul. 28, 2023

Then, at the end of the seventh century BCE, a resurgent Babylonia allied with the Median Empire to destroy the Neo-Assyrian Empire and carve up the spoils.

From Textbooks • Apr. 19, 2023

He seemed happy to carve up the arm of the rocking chair like he was all of eleven years old, putting his initials in a tree.

From "The Secret Life of Bees" by Sue Monk Kidd