How To Use Carving In A Sentence

Country pursuits on offer include sheep-racing, woodcarving with chainsaws, small-bore rifle-shooting, wool-spinning, bee demonstrations, candle-making and ferret-racing.
The men practised various traditional crafts, such as carving toys out of bone.
I picked up a piece of wood and started carving.
Against all odds, he succeeded in carving out a career in the media.
Over the south door, the twelfth-century carving of Christ in Glory is seated in a niche, within the traditional mandorla.

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Get to know the town and the hilly surroundings famous for their tannery, wood carving and furriery.
They appreciated the soaring towers, pointed arches, the polychromy of brick and stone decoration and the carvings of birds and beasts. Gothic Renaissance in London
Woodcarvings, bamboo mats, wooden partitions, paintings, wall hangings, brassware, metal icons and pooja articles are also on display, besides ready-to-eat products.
The carving of the Mount Rushmore Monument likewise spanned a period of fourteen years.
These sculptures, and others, are juxtaposed with coins, medals, gems, seals, enamels, ivory carving, a cassone, a parade shield, moulded leather and even a waffling iron.
Forever fickle, he has now become interested in old wooden carvings.
But despite the brocaded swags, ornamental carvings and original works of art here, you won't feel you have to tiptoe down the corridors and talk in whispers.
It was made of stone, and it had carvings of sea creatures carved into the front door.
In this first episode, nerves are jangling as one woman tries to open a tin with a carving knife and rolling pin. The Sun
The custom of carving jack-o'-lanterns can be traced back to an old Irish folk tale.
There is so marked an absence of carving that it seems as if ornamentation would have been weakening and trammelling. Cathedrals and Cloisters of the South of France, Volume 1
She couldn't stop looking at the fancy carvings in the walls, and at the stained glass windows.
The church tower, which has Saxon stone carvings inlaid in the walls, is 16th century and the rest was rebuilt in 1904.
She said it was a community-based project and they had a lot of arts-related activities in progress, including several classes in painting, ceramics, woodcrafts, woodcarving and photography.
And whoever had done those carvings on the wall, Twoflower thought charitably, had probably been drinking too much.
When we stood at the bow of the ship we peered over the edge and watched the maidenhead get battered, the wooden carving taking the abuse in stride.
McElwee contrasts convex and concave forms with building recesses and relief carvings.
They may only be carving fruit and vegetables, but these precision instruments need sharpening every week and the useful life of the knives in his hands is only six weeks.
I asked them how many expected to get jobs carving, and how many actually thought they had an opportunity to get a job as a cabinetmaker, a joiner, or a chippy's labourer.
To be sure the back-seats were free for the poor; but the emblazoned crimson of the windows, the carving of the arches, the very purity of the preacher's style, said plainly that it was easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for a man in a red wamus to enter the kingdom of heaven through that gate. Margret Howth, a Story of To-day
All details of her woodcarvings, even the villi, or small hairs on the stem of each plant, are done by hand with a knife.
He acquired the craft of wood carving in his native town.
Their coverings having now been removed, on each shield a carving of the head of Caesar could be seen on the umbo, or central knob. Herodias
Rare paintings, frescoes and stone carvings present a marvellous panorama to the visitor.
There are two Churches; Ely minster is a Curious pile of Building all of stone, the outside full of Carvings and great arches and fine pillars in the front, and the jnside has the greatest variety and neatness in the works. Through England on a Side Saddle in the Time of William and Mary
During the week, youngsters tried their hand at pumpkin carving and visited a haunted house grotto.
At a significantly later date the rock dome was quarried, and some of the phase 1 carvings were broken through.
He watched her carving her way through the traffic on Main Street and envied her access to the combustion engine. EVERVILLE
Towards the end of the twelfth century, stone from Caen was used for the rebuilding of Canterbury Cathedral, and in the mid-thirteenth century freestone from Caen was used for mouldings and carvings in Westminster Abbey.
They are carving up wheat fields with ever more elaborate designs to impress upon us how intelligent they are.
Their exhibition features traditional and contemporary Pacific art and carvings.
Remove turkey from oven and cover with aluminum foil for 15 to 20 minutes before carving.
Exhibits include exquisite wooden panels, woodcarvings, ivory works, bronze castings, archaeological artefacts, stone sculptures and palm-leaf etchings.
Then, angling her flashlight to direct the beam ahead of her, she carefully inspected the wall to her right until she found a hole the size of a nickel disguised in the carvings.
Intricate carvings lined the walls and two stairways - one up and one down - led off of the main floor.
At current exchange rates, everything's a bargain - covetable leather goods and heavy Karnataka silk, handwoven carpets, temple carvings and spices, cashews, tea and coffee.
The new way dispensed with carving in wood or stone or modelling in clay and casting in metal. The Times Literary Supplement
Pianist-composer Childs is a hometown phenomenon busy carving out a career between the jazz and classical worlds.
You can also buy jack-o-lantern carving kits which make the whole process relatively easy. A pleasing terror « Write Anything
Long-standing traditions of pottery, metalworking, rugmaking, woodcarving, and textile production have been carried forward by artisan and craft cooperatives.
TWILIGHT PUMPKINS ARE ALL THE RAGE THIS HALLOWEEN www. onlykent.com: Halloween is just round the corner and now is the time for us to start searching for those all important pumpkin carving templates. TWILIGHT SAGA NEWS FOR OCTOBER 26TH | Open Society Book Club Discussions and Reviews
His woodcarvings still grace the Hotel Marauw and Biak's House of Arts.
Ancient vases and carvings tell the story of the war, but whether they are retelling myth or history remains unknown.
He imagined that very few people in history had actually seen this carving up close, since it was designed to sit so high above the populace—but up close, the carved image of the disclike Sun looked odd, as if it were not a carved image but rather…well…aplug in the stone. Seven Deadly Wonders
Her woodcarvings will be on display at the gallery next month.
UBS is even carving out a position in U.S. investment banking, where it was once a marginal player.
We're carving out something new. Times, Sunday Times
The showroom also has on display some cedar wood carvings which artists have made after a visit to Africa.
The rotor turns an attached generator, creating electricity with a simple elegance, carving energy from the sky.
I grabbed a carving knife from a rack beside the sink but the ambulant arm stopped in the doorway. Blood Lite II: Overbite
A country so rich in frescoes and carvings of bacchanalian festivities must know a thing or two about making wine.
Some of them are carving out careers but the show turns them into household names. The Sun
The mantelpiece was an intricate wood carving of vines and branches, almost like it was a living tree itself.
The carving abounded in motifs from nature including swallows, hydrangeas, azaleas, geraniums, lilies, palmyras, and balloon vines.
Thai crafts include handwoven silk and cotton, woodcarvings, silverwork, basketry, and lacquerware.
The gilded wooden carvings around the windows had turned brown, but now they gleam.
Patroclus sharpened the carving-knife on the kitchen stove, and they all went out into the potato field.
The "Lai d'Aristote," which occurred in the exterior carvings, is repeated here on the misericorde which is the ninth of the top row on the southern side. The Story of Rouen
An entire gopuram, a huge round ball carved intricately, lies forlorn in the shallow sea, surrounded by piles of slabs and bricks and more carvings and general debris from the temple.
Tombs of ecclesiastics (Obazine Abbey, Hereford Cathedral) were made deliberately shrinelike, with relief carving or a pinnacled canopy.
Taught by his uncle, Leo has been carving katsinas for more than 20 years, starting at the age of 15.
The custom of carving jack-o'-lanterns can be traced back to an old Irish folk tale.
The new way dispensed with carving in wood or stone or modelling in clay and casting in metal. The Times Literary Supplement
What matters most, is the quality of carving, originality and a charming subject.
They enjoyed a rich culture of rock art, wood carving and weaving. Times, Sunday Times
The carved foliage with ribbons and laurel wreaths applied to the center of the end cupboards relates to carvings on some of the best Federal mantels and overmantels in New Orleans.
But cadastral surveys, by carving the land up into unnaturally straight-edged blocks (first on paper and then, where possible, in the soil itself), assigning (or denying) rights to it in terms of commercial ownership, and buttressing the lines on these maps with the power of state-sanctioned law, sought to transform and appropriate not only control over territorial organization but the land itselfand thus the foundation of Africans 'social organization and culture. Where Women Make History: Gendered Tellings of Community and Change in Magude, Mozambique
Wood - carvings are a speciality of this village.
They enjoyed a rich culture of rock art, wood carving and weaving. Times, Sunday Times
We're carving out something new. Times, Sunday Times
Now the members want to get more people involved so the art of woodcarving is not lost in Swindon.
The screen and stall work brought from Easby Abbey are of great beauty, and the carvings on the subsellia are quaint and humorous.
With a flare of anger, he saw the pistol from his father's three-part collection, its dragon carving and sapphire eye unique among the display.
When Martin Kenny came across what looked like a phallic carving at a site where workers had been excavating to build a new barn, he didn't know what to make of the thing.
She works in collage and mixed media, carving, scratching and gluing the surface texture to create ‘visual dialogue.’
An upswell of interest carried the skateboard through the 70s with Southern Californian skateboarders draining swimming pools and carving turns and somersaults off the edge of pools.
The restaurant had worked hard to conjure up vivid images of Thailand in every detail from the artwork and carvings adorning the green and maroon walls to the incense wafting through the air.
And the other "goodie" is two pack of cheap rubbers (erasers) from Woolworths - I was queuing up to buy some polo shirts (school uniform) and saw these on a rack, and thought they'd be great for carving rubber stamps from. Archive 2007-06-01
The winding Sepik river in Papua New Guinea has jungle, tribes and exotic wood carvings. River Journeys
It's a missed opportunity he soon rectifies by carving bits off the mandatory cuties who have lost their way. Times, Sunday Times
It is to be noted that in ‘classical’ Islamic architecture in Persia, decoration took the form of very geometric carving - arabesque - in intricate patterns, as well as verses from the Koran.
So the provisioner went in followed by the portress and the Porter and went on till they reached a spacious ground floor hall,148 built with admirable skill and beautified with all manner colours and carvings; with upper balconies and groined arches and galleries and cupboards and recesses whose curtains hung before them. The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
Use patience, a very sharp carving knife, and lots of red wine for your guests.
The designs on Bronze Age metalwork and rock carvings show boats with a beak at the prow.
He had established a school where he held courses for the proletarian class in such crafts as weaving, embroidery, painting, wood carving.
Kleiner has made some big bets so far, carving out $100 million from its $400 million 12th fund raised in 2006 for clean-tech investments, later raising more than $750 million for a fund devoted solely to capital-intensive clean-tech plays. Enterprise Dispatch
This major retrospective of British sculptor Henry Moore consists of some 120 works, including drawings, maquettes, plasters, wood and stone carvings, and large bronzes.
My first two carvings were produced from this branch: a small whale and an orangutan.
These include paintings, drawings, pottery, sculptures, mosaics, wall hangings, wood carvings, glass works and leather pieces, felt art, jewellery and much more.
The paintings began to take on more of the qualities of sculptures, featuring ‘the removal and chipping away or carving out of surfaces,’ remnants of subtractive gestures and large tracts of unfinished canvas.
The same team also produced a plaster cast of the archivolt of the first and second niche of the fountain's back wall, of which many parts are missing, to serve as a model for carving these elements. Interactive Dig Sagalassos 2003 - Restoration & Conservation Report 5
He is not like a living thing, but more like a little stone carving of a baby as you find in a church, placed beside his stone-dead mother. The Red Queen
The host filled glasses, made a show with the carving things, held out his plate.
We chose pottery although they do leather work and woodcarving as well. THE MARSHAL AND THE MURDERER
By having cheap flights to accra you could buy very fine wood carvings, drums, and several types of colorful cloth, including the Ashante kente. Latest Press Releases
They also have colorful gift shop filled with traditional arts and crafts, such as slate carvings, wood carvings, jipijapa baskets, calabash, Mopan Maya clothing, and jewelry. Archive 2006-11-01
The stern was embellished with carvings in red and blue.
Center the roast on a carving board that is long enough to allow the carver to cut the meat without spilling on the tablecloth.
They also made carvings deep, knowing well that erosion by wind and water can erase them.
Pumpkin carvers got a little wet in Key Largo during an underwater carving contest. Couple Wins Underwater Pumpkin Carving Contest | Impact Lab
A wonderland of mechanical organs rich with exuberant carvings.
This carving is not 'westernized' in any way, so you have to sort of become like another culture to understand. Linda's Birthday, my hard day and a postcard project post.
It's an astonishingly accomplished piece of carving. Times, Sunday Times
Surprise doesn't register, instead, Devito plunges an eight-inch carving knife purposefully and repeatedly into the victim's stomach.
All the furniture in the room had much carving.
The schooner was called Le Carcajou—the Wolverine—and her figurehead was a carving of the beast, mouth agape and fangs bared, claws ready to strike. City of Glory
The final step in this process is the carving of the decoration (a Lesbian cymatium and several rows of bead-and-reel) onto the new block. Interactive Dig Sagalassos - Restoration Report 6
Their importance lies not in their practical use but in their exceptionally skilled carving, the unflawed quality of the stone, and the elegant calligraphy of their inscriptions.
He is carving himself a niche in the pharmaceutical industry, something which the company has given him free rein to do. Times, Sunday Times
Other crafts include metalworking and woodcarving.
In Fujian, workers are carving roads into red clay hills, scaling bamboo scaffolding, hauling piles of stone.
On the Southern gateway elaborate carvings showing the birth of Gautama Buddha took my breath away.
In Venice she slept in the garden of a gondolier; in Thailand she hung out with a family that showed her the art of fruit carving.
About five years later he was attracted to the natural beauty of stone and he became a highly original exponent of direct carving in this medium.
Unemployed people mostly revert to traditional economies such as fishing; gathering of wild fruits and vegetables; woodcarving; pottery; basketry, and iron forging.
In the kirks a certain skill in woodcarving was often evident, and in recognition of the Auld Alliance between France and Scotland, a blue fleur-de-lis carpet was usually a feature.
The City likes to measure things in quarters, carving up the year into four easily digestible parts. Times, Sunday Times
An important characteristic of the carvings is that they include many unreligious moral stories besides sculptures of the Buddha.
Then have fun building a shelter, making a fire, carving your own catapult and foraging for food. The Sun
Several series of images from this visit depict techniques, ranging from weaving and basketry to pottery making and calabash carving.
The temple is noted for its rich carvings.
The highlight of the fare is the flavoured cocktails and mocktails, fruit and vegetable carvings, which promise to transport you to coastal Thailand.
We chose pottery although they do leather work and woodcarving as well. THE MARSHAL AND THE MURDERER
Occupational therapy in the form of needlework, woodcarving and basketwork and entertainment including film shows and dancing all played a big role in the men's rehabilitation.
No one here will try to sell you a mass-produced low-quality woodcarving or ‘original’ oil painting at a special-for-you tourist price of US $100.
When the first coal fell he went out with a pot and a carving knife.
To keep the mind alert we have French, writing and play acting, painting in water colour and oil, egg decorating, folk art, calligraphy, woodcarving, and basic and expressive drawing.
Other forms of graphic arts include lacquerware, mother-of-pearl inlay, gold work, nielloware, silverware, wood carving, ceramics, basketry and plaiting, weaving, and painting on paper or canvas.
The host filled glasses, made a show with the carving things, held out his plate.
His pursuit of beauty continues to this day, as he quietly goes about his daily tasks of carving stone sculptures and casting concrete figures.
I asked them how many expected to get jobs carving, and how many actually thought they had an opportunity to get a job as a cabinetmaker, a joiner, or a chippy's labourer.
Artists cast sculptures in bronze and brass, produce glass and metal work, and make quality leatherwork and calabash carvings.
The themes of heraldry, religion, astronomy, astrology and the natural world are expressed in murals, mosaics, stained glass, intricate woodwork and stone and marble carvings.
Heron, new carving set laid out, was making his first tentative passes at a small burl he had found on the beach, thinking that it appeared to him like a gull settling its wings after it had landed.
Many of the exquisite carvings and secret chambers found in old wooden chests and wardrobes are difficult to reproduce.
Use a carving fork to hold the bird, or grip the bird with your hand using a clean pot holder or napkin.
Such a criticism could not be made of his own book, which devotes 10 chapters to the status and duties of a carver, and no fewer than 76 chapters to the carving of particular foodstuffs.
In order to break through the oneness of pure wood carving delicate, especially with defects in the painting and maximize the product promotion, aesthetic and noble.
The carving of this late-gothic International Style is especially noteworthy for figures that often appear to have no feet and are supported by their elaborate drapery — here especially beautifully carved. Beautiful Mourning
The desk was ornamented with many carvings.
His first sculptures were woodcarvings; originally he used driftwood, but he moved on to fine pieces of timber and made great play of exploiting beautiful grain.
The wind sculpts them into dramatic shapes; the ice refracts the light and the carvings shine bright, butterfly-wing neon blue from the inside.
Sculpture and carving on bone and walrus tusk are the most highly developed forms of folk art among the Chukchi.
If the carving machine is my first painting machine, then is it possible that I might invent a painting machine with more possibilities?
There you will find a wide range of leather goods, wood carvings, cane and lace work.
Less well developed are the arts of painting, sculpture, and carving.
It is full of natural history; notes about customs she has observed, epitaphs, and inscriptions on bells; here are also drawings of carvings she has seen on screens and pew ends in churches.
Excellent plates show every conceivable aspect from his stamp to gilt bronzes and immaculate carving.
It is said that the organ of carving upon wood is prominently developed on all English skulls; and the sagacious Mr. Combe has placed this organ at the back of the head, in juxtaposition to that of destructiveness, which is equally large among our countrymen, as is notably evinced upon all railings, seats, temples, and other things-belonging to other people. Paul Clifford — Complete
The carving is a superb piece of craftsmanship.
The inro is a sealed case comprising small, nested boxes for storing personal belongings; the netsuke, a small carving of animals or people, kept the inro securely closed. Asian Art Soars in London
A wooden carving of a berobed angel salvaged from another church is yet more tongue-in-cheek. Times, Sunday Times
I 'hone' my skills with flower purchases at the supermarket or farmer's market and torture my husband by carving up my purchases in our sink. In a Second Life
I looked up at the fountain with its carving of heavy-shouldered wind gods straining to propel ships and bearded sea gods looking to spear them.
Their surfaces betray hints of carving: the carved supports may once have presented imagery of personified, sacred stones, probably supernaturally charged greenstone celts.
Desolately sit over there, Air Jordan Retro 5, an on each occasion, like a sculpture of carve carvings.
Her carvings of mermen had semi-precious stones for eyes. Times, Sunday Times
Other handicrafts include woodcarving and basketry.
Her carving belt jangled, her axes and mallets hung in hand, and her dire wolf jogged beside her. GuildWars Edge of Destiny
This virtuoso decorative carving is a typical feature of late Gothic architecture in Bohemia.
The food must be the sort that travels well, which means leaving melons, roast chickens, loaves of bread et cetera whole and carving them on site.
He would sharpen a knife for a full five minutes before carving the roast.
These goods are supplied to us with many others, such as joinery and carving, by one Septimus, who is a contractor and, they say, a head priest among the Christians, employing many hands at his shops in the poor streets yonder. Pearl-Maiden
Spear a piece of fish with a carving fork and dip it in the batter.
The temple complex, earlier than Angkor, is a steep climb up through frangipani trees - but the view from the top and the early carvings, some almost hidden by the jungle, make the effort worth-while.
Another carving from the 1850s is thought to have been the work of Kit Carson, the famous frontiersman.
You can't get much further away from stone carving than that, but the lesson I learned in Germany was that you don't take a letterform designed for printing in lead type and force it upon an unwilling medium.
Carving is also applied to the production of staves of traditional office, drums, dolls, and game boards.
The envelope expresses texture and depth not through carving, but through two-dimensional patterns on the skin.
Before she left, she was given an array of presents from former students, including an ebony carving of a Masai family.
He pulled at a piece of carving on the wail behind and pointed to a stair that showed behind the outswung door. Told in the East
He is completely redefining the role of the artist, carving out a new social role. Times, Sunday Times
Upstairs, besides the bedrooms, was a little chapel with some remains of Gothic carving, and a few interesting pictures of the fifteenth century; a cunningly contrived priest-hole, and a long gallery lined with dusty books, whither my lord used to repair on rainy days. Vanishing England
The former is seen in the rectilinear and symmetrical designs, including some carvings and moldings that are formed with characteristic regence strapwork, grotesques, and classical motifs from antiquity.
She sharpened the meat carving knife on a whetstone.
Heidi and Jimmy also discussed Halloween -- seemingly Heidi's favorite holiday -- and she told him that pumpkin carving was "so yesterday. Heidi Klum's Harshest 'Project Runway' Takedowns (VIDEO)
This exhibit displays more than 100 items dating from the Northern Wei Dynasty (which started in 386) to the Ming Dynasty (which ended in 1644), including pottery figures, ceramics, metal works, stone sculptures, wood carvings and some Sassanian and Byzantine coins. Time Off
The carvings are works of art in themselves, even disregarding their religious significance.
It comprises 26,000 pieces of white marble beautified with intricate carvings by traditional craftsmen. Times, Sunday Times
He spent most of three days carving a piece of ivory into a likeness of the snowy owl. The Broken God
Or you can go online and find and article on sculping/carving wood into replicas. goodlcuk SciFi, Fantasy & Horror Collectibles - Part 6042
I reached into the open cutlery drawer and pulled out the carving knife. Behind Closed Doors - advice for families with violence in the home
If it is the carvings in their pristine charm that captivates the heart of an art lover, certainly it is the power of the deity that pulls the believer.
Using original instruments and following the old traditions, locals represent around 20 characteristics of the regional crafts such as wood-carving, pottery, coppersmith crafts, furriery, cutlery making, needlework etc. TravelPod.com Recent Updates
We're carving out something new. Times, Sunday Times
He would sharpen a knife for a full five minutes before carving the roast.
Then he chips and chisels the block, carving out the small figurines.
Artists cast sculptures in bronze and brass, produce glass and metal work, and make quality leatherwork and calabash carvings.
It's an astonishingly accomplished piece of carving. Times, Sunday Times
Of all the carving operations associated with stringed musical instruments carving the scroll of violin family instruments seems to be one of the most difficult to grasp.
Carving evocative melodies within dreamy sound structures, he seems to work on a recurring theme all the way through.
To prevent "flystrike" (a maggot infestation caused by wrinkly skin, which was bred into the sheep so that they would have more wool), Australian ranchers perform a barbarous operation called "mulesing," which involves carving huge strips of flesh off the backs of unanesthetized lambs 'legs. PETA Latest News
Leave meat to stand for 3-4 minutes before carving.
He says he found an ancient carving of a ‘quadrang’ style boomerang etched into a rock in Ilkley Moor depicting a boomerang as a weapon.
Beware of carvings containing tiny holes that are not part of the design - they could indicate the existence of woodworm.

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