carve

Al Qaeda has never managed to carve out a large chunk of real estate to call its own—in Afghanistan it was a guest of the Taliban.

Her new paradigm leads her to carve up shibboleths and heroes alike.

I sort of got lucky in that I was able to carve a niche for myself.

In Brazil, there was a microcosmic slice of the kind of public role he is attempting to carve.

Could it just be that prison itself conditions a sort of pavlovian reaction to carve chess pieces?

You could carve him to pieces without hearing a cheep, if he decided to keep his mouth shut.

A pair of carvers, laid with my cover, tell me that I shall have to carve the ham which is here eaten with the chicken.

Houdon then returned to France and proceeded to carve a Carrara marble statue of his subject.

The painter cannot put sounds upon a canvas, nor can the sculptor carve from marble an odor or a taste.

He was yet young, vigorous and ambitious, and with the help of heaven he would carve out his own fortune.