- present participle of carve.
carving
Americannoun
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carvings
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the act of fashioning or producing by cutting into or shaping solid material, as wood.
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a carved design or figure.
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As for the Wolverines, it’s barely pumpkin carving season, and it’s getting ugly.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 5, 2026
Before carving out a career in sports broadcasting and voice acting, Horton was just a teenaged high school basketball reject.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 1, 2026
Michael Hill, a professor of chemistry at Occidental College, puts it more bluntly: "LASIK is just a fancy way of doing traditional surgery. It's still carving tissue -- it's just carving with a laser."
From Science Daily ● Sep. 29, 2026
Antonelli looked capable of winning any which way, but decided to stop for fresh tyres under a virtual safety car mid-race and narrowed a 15-second gap to nothing before carving past Russell.
From BBC ● Sep. 6, 2026
It is a tiny golden carving of Odin, the all-father, on his high throne: the king.
From "Norse Mythology" by Neil Gaiman
According to the company’s website, the business sells precious and semi-precious crystal pendants, carvings and chains.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 13, 2026
In 1886 an American naval ship brought statues, wooden carvings, feather headdresses and stone tools to the Smithsonian Institution.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 20, 2026
The oak refectory tables and benches, crafted by Robert "Mouseman" Thompson and featuring his trademark mice carvings, had been donated by former pupils.
From BBC ● Nov. 23, 2025
Their recognizable silhouettes, complete with coiled tails, even appear in ancient Egyptian rock carvings.
From Science Daily ● Nov. 19, 2025
I imagined Mother and Father lying in their big mahogany bed with its heavy carvings of cherubs and fruit.
From "The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate" by Jacqueline Kelly
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