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
He sat down to carve up the buffalo and roast the meat.
From "A Girl Named Disaster" by Nancy Farmer
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
