carve up

Example Sentences

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The Scottish boundary commissioners ran through a series of consultations to try to carve up the map into suitably-sized chunks, while remaining sensitive to existing communities.

From BBC • Jun. 6, 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

These are just two different ways to carve up the year.

From Seattle Times • Sep. 22, 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

Jagged lines of orange and pink carve up the sky.

From "Al Capone Does My Shirts" by Gennifer Choldenko