carving

Example Sentences

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It normalized for me the intentional carving out of time needed for writing, reading and creating.

From Los Angeles Times • May 15, 2026

The resulting floods tore through the landscape, carving deep channels as the water rushed downhill.

From Science Daily • May 15, 2026

Earnings are impressive, but Intuitive is still a young company carving out a business in the growing space economy.

From Barron's • May 14, 2026

Choosing to directly take on the major airlines, rather than carving out niche routes, was a critical error that doomed the company.

From MarketWatch • May 2, 2026

I was not aware, but while we were carving the obelisk hundreds of other laborers were building a wooden barge at the edge of the Nile.

From "The (Mostly) True Story of Cleopatra's Needle" by Dan Gutman