sculpt
verb (used with or without object)
to carve, model, or make by using the techniques of sculpture.
were sculpting
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past progressiveof sculpt.past progressive
Used to describe an ongoing action or continuous state that was happening at a specific time in the past.
Example Sentences
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Ms. Cutler and Ms. Rice see Peoplehood as a natural successor to SoulCycle, which became a phenomenon because it made its customers feel as if they were sculpting not just their bodies but their selves.
From New York Times ● May 7, 2022
Overhead, crews were sculpting spires designed to look like the petrified remnants of once-towering trees on a distant planet.
From New York Times ● Nov. 16, 2018
“Oh. And what about how his hands were so rough and red from all of his sculptures that sometimes I joked to him that it was really the sculptures that were sculpting his hands? Over.”
From "Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close" by Jonathan Safran Foer
