carve
verb (used with object)
to cut (a solid material) so as to form something.
am carving
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present progressiveof carve (1st person singular).present progressive
Used to describe an ongoing action or state that is currently taking place in the immediate present.
Example Sentences
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I am carving a statue against the canons of the sculptor's ritual for the sake of my love of beauty.
From The Yoke A Romance of the Days when the Lord Redeemed the Children of Israel from the Bondage of Egypt by Elizabeth Miller
Besides, I very much want a moth copied for a candlestick I am carving.
From The Harvester by Gene Stratton-Porter
And besides, I have found in the cupboard some small, sharp tools, with which the images in the little room must have been carved, and I am carving a figure on the wooden stool.
From The Magician's Show Box and Other Stories by Lydia Maria Francis Child
