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sculpt

[skuhlpt] / skʌlpt /










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I wanted to paint, I wanted to sculpt, I wanted to make music.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 2, 2026

The Murdochs declined to participate, but decades’ worth of archival footage gives Garbus plenty to sculpt.

From Salon ● Mar. 14, 2026

As the doctor’s apprentice, Little moves with him to Paris, where she helps sculpt figures for his new wax museum.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 12, 2026

They can determine where crystallization occurs, reshape and "sculpt" the structures, and enhance their uniformity and size to create larger and more intricate colloidal assemblies.

From Science Daily ● Mar. 2, 2026

While she wrote, the others leaned in, watching her sculpt the letters, each one a shivering architecture of dashes and curves.

From "The Reader" by Traci Chee

That wrist is how Alcaraz sculpts that spectacular drop shot that makes opponents quiver at the knees and would make Harry Hopman cry.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 6, 2026

Craning her neck into elegant lines, she sculpts herself into the rendering she wants.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 7, 2026

These features are constantly being reshaped as energetic starlight pushes and sculpts the surrounding material.

From Science Daily ● Dec. 25, 2025

Ando sculpts intricate yet airy interiors, enlivened by dramatic voids or unexpected lightwells, out of slabs of concrete.

From New York Times ● Apr. 15, 2024

I mean, who sculpts ten-foot-tall metal toes and sticks them in a junkyard?

From "The Titan's Curse" by Rick Riordan

A library of radically changed visages, sliced and sculpted to fit the funhouse-mirror beauty standards set by a handful of influential men.

From Salon ● Oct. 1, 2026

Whether there is a physical change - or any need for one - is debatable, but fans of the massages claim they help "flatten" and "debloat" and give a "snatched waist" and "sculpted abs".

From BBC ● Oct. 1, 2026

At night, queues snake around the block outside nightclubs where DJ’s spin thumping house music for big-spending revelers, their faces sculpted by surgery and tanned by the sun.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 23, 2026

There were outdoor hallways, planted patios, a sculpted and porous internal courtyard, and even a new “paseo” next door — a closed street turned into a lovely space for farmers markets and other gatherings.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 18, 2026

Athena’s other hand rested on a shield as big as a billboard, with a sculpted snake peeking out from behind, as if Athena was protecting it.

From "The Mark of Athena" by Rick Riordan

Technicians monitoring the monument’s 140 microfractures have noted that further high-impact sculpting would risk catastrophic rockfalls, potentially destabilizing the scupture of Abraham Lincoln.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 3, 2026

As he spent hours sculpting large, foam trees for the group, he says he fell in love.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 20, 2026

Two stonemasons have won a snow sculpting prize as part of Team GB's entry to the World Snow Festival in Switzerland.

From BBC ● Mar. 1, 2026

"The hardest thing was sculpting his hair. Holy shmoly! Oi yoi yoi!" he exclaims.

From Barron's ● Feb. 7, 2026

The Bennington-Sarah Lawrence type looked like she’d spent the whole train ride in the john, sculpting or painting or something, or as though she had a leotard on under her dress.

From "Franny and Zooey" by J. D. Salinger




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