carves in English

verb

1

cut (a hard material) in order to produce an aesthetically pleasing object or design.

the wood was carved with runes

synonyms: engrave, etch, incise, score

2

cut (cooked meat) into slices for eating.

Using a sharp knife, carve the fillet into wafer thin slices.

3

make (a turn) by tilting one's skis on to their edges and using one's weight to bend them so that they slide into an arc.

A descent is a source of amusement to my wife, the graceful one; she likes to watch me carve turns.

verb

sculpt, sculpture, cut, hew, whittle, form, shape, fashion
engrave, etch, incise, score
slice, cut up, chop
cut up

Use "carves" in a sentence

1. Carved, carv·ing, carves v.tr

2. She carves in both stone and wood.

3. 19 He carves his figures from white pine.

4. 28 She carves in both stone and wood.

5. Using a sharp blade the Batiker carves away excess foam

6. When he was 16 when is ornery shoots carves the hero!

7. Serigne Mbaye Camara carves geometric forms and applies them to two-colour backgrounds.

8. We set into motion that domino effect that carves out AI's evolutionary path.

9. It works easily with hand or machine tools; it turns and carves quite well.

10. Marie carves radishes into flowers and arranges them prettily on a plate with salt and olives.

11. The sculptor carves the outline with an adze, works on details such as the face with a chisel.

12. In this sense, Paper Cadavers carves out its own space in a well-developed literature on Cold War violence in Latin America

13. She hitchhikes with a trucker named Norm, then meets and travels with a pair of protesters, Elizabeth, a ditzy but sweet and likeable girl, and Howard, who sells apples he carves into celebrities.

14. "Cheerlessness" carves out the perfect trine foundation to aspect both the anthemic "Cheaptime Morals" and the much looser jam "Christian Right" (the latter featuring fellow Texan Andrew Savage of Parquet Courts)

15. Screeches, Clanks and Howls carves out a niche for itself in the cutthroat world of Halloween sound effects recordings by mixing the conventional scares of its title with tracks like "Demented Dentist" and "Hungry Ghouls" -- two cuts that flesh out the monotony of …