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separate into parts or portions
divide the cake into three equal parts
The British carved up the Ottoman Empire after World War I
How To Use carve up In A Sentence
- business acquisitions, and other companies to carve up Yahoo's other businesses.
- What I find so ridiculous about this stuff, out of the many ridiculous angles, is that to the extent you want to get all David Brooks with your idiot-self and carve up people into categories by cultural consumption, politics has nothing to do with it. Matthew Yglesias » The Brie Factor
- The dark days when imperialism could carve up the world at will are gone for ever.
- We saw the van carve up several cars, before turning left.
- In winter, hit Australia's highest ski slopes at Charlotte Pass or carve up the snow at Thredbo and Perisher Blue.
- They wheeled in the rocket scientists, who started to carve up mortgage securities into itty-bitty pieces.
- They forcibly occupied leased territory, divided into spheres of influence, an attempt to carve up China, China as a colony changed.
- The two companies are attempting to carve up a large slice of America's publishing industry between them.
- They wheeled in the rocket scientists, who started to carve up mortgage securities into itty-bitty pieces.
- As they had carved up Poland, they might decide to carve up Europe. THE AMBASSADOR'S WOMEN
