- present participle of carve.
carving
Example Sentences
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It’s got two young lovers carving their names into car seat leather, and it’s got a girl trying to impress her boyfriend’s older sister with her cynical humor and her taste in yacht rock.
From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 12, 2026
He is among the workers who have embraced “microshifting,” or carving their day into short chunks of work, with intentional breaks for family time or personal replenishment.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 10, 2026
On the three-year weekly chart, the stock appears to be carving out what could become the right clavicle of a larger bearish head-and-shoulders formation.
From Barron's • Jun. 5, 2026
She hit one glorious carving drive over extra cover for six early on and in the 15th over kicked for home by hitting spinner Sree Charani for a four and two thumping sixes.
From BBC • Jun. 2, 2026
We may translate this to mean that he started the process of carving a statue by trying to visualize a figure in the rough, rectilinear block as it came to him from the quarry.
From "History of Art, Volume 1" by H.W. Janson
