carve up

Example Sentences

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

From Science Daily • Dec. 21, 2023

“It’s a small price to pay to carve up my district in order to be able to have two majority minority districts,” she said.

From Seattle Times • Jun. 8, 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

Heather Jardine was a girl when the machinery arrived to carve up the ground on hills around her home in Sutherland in the 1970s.

From BBC • Jan. 1, 2023

Jagged lines of orange and pink carve up the sky.

From "Al Capone Does My Shirts" by Gennifer Choldenko