How to Use carve up in a Sentence

carve up

verb
  • These are just two different ways to carve up the year.
    — ABC News, 19 June 2026
  • These are just two different ways to carve up the year.
    — ABC News, 16 Mar. 2026
  • Against this backdrop is a campaign field that will be carved up six ways from Sunday.
    — Laura Washington, Chicago Tribune, 25 Mar. 2026
  • In this case, that language carves up the world at the joints, that language has some kind of authority.
    — Caleb Crain, Harpers Magazine, 24 Mar. 2026
  • Maintenance crews carve up the streets while pedestrians squeeze by, each person absorbed in their own agendas.
    — Françoise Mouly, New Yorker, 30 Mar. 2026
  • Though light on star power, the Warriors had no issue carving up the Grizzlies.
    — Joseph Dycus, Mercury News, 26 Feb. 2026
  • So the Allies carved up Berlin into four occupation zones.
    — Encyclopedia Britannica, 24 June 2026
  • Distributors have largely vied for pieces of sports media by carving up those rights among streaming platforms.
    — Hannah Rabinowitz, CNN Money, 9 Apr. 2026
  • Trubisky carved up the Jets defense, which had a makeshift secondary after several injuries.
    — Antwan Staley, New York Daily News, 4 Jan. 2026
  • In the Talmud, however, life after age twenty is carved up into decade-long intervals.
    — Shayla Love, New Yorker, 25 Feb. 2026
  • And so, as things sit right now, the districts that were carved up by the legislature in special session this summer are the districts that people will run in.
    — Jack Fink, CBS News, 30 Nov. 2025
  • Spheres of influence aren’t—the world is both too interconnected to carve up and too fragmented to hold together.
    — Ian Bremmer, Time, 6 Jan. 2026
  • Not just by dint of wealth, though that helps, but because the region is carved up into separate jurisdictions with seemingly no logic.
    — Meghan Daum, The Atlantic, 15 May 2026
  • Now there could be an M&A frenzy in the works as prospective buyers plot ways to carve up his representation empire.
    — Ethan Millman, HollywoodReporter, 15 Feb. 2026
  • The Royals had just four hits against Phillies starter Jesus Luzardo, who carved up the hosts’ starting lineup.
    — Kansas City Star, 5 July 2026
  • Both players can combine to carve up the intermediate areas of the field while Pierce also stretches the defense.
    — Jourdan Rodrigue, New York Times, 16 Mar. 2026
  • The Wizards jumped out to a 20-12 lead, carving up Brooklyn’s defense with clean ball movement and open looks.
    — C.j. Holmes, New York Daily News, 3 Jan. 2026
  • That's partly because Indianapolis would no longer be one compact district, but would be carved up into four sprawling districts.
    — Kayla Dwyer, IndyStar, 1 Dec. 2025
  • Lee helped convict a Connecticut airline pilot accused of carving up his stewardess wife with a chainsaw and running the pieces through a wood chipper.
    — Edmund H. Mahony, Hartford Courant, 27 Mar. 2026
  • These rising rates can force Hoosiers like Emerson Harper to carve up the household budget and fiddle with the thermostat.
    — Sophie Hartley, IndyStar, 21 Jan. 2026
  • Using hundreds of elephants to haul artillery, Cornwallis invaded Mysore and carved up the sultanate.
    — Daniel Immerwahr, New Yorker, 4 May 2026
  • The first unanimous ruling found that the map itself, which carves up Kansas City, was legal and did not violate the state constitution.
    — Kacen Bayless, Kansas City Star, 13 May 2026
  • Kiley’s district, which stretches from east of Sacramento across the state and down to Death Valley, will be carved up and pieces will go into six different districts.
    — David Lightman, Sacbee.com, 16 Dec. 2025
  • Films that accompanied the curriculum also showed the Netsilik disemboweling a seal and carving up a caribou.
    — Jonathan Zimmerman, The Atlantic, 23 Dec. 2025
  • Trying to appease hungry, stone-throwing workers, the English elite carved up twenty acres of land on the outskirts of London into tiny provisioning gardens.
    — Literary Hub, 19 Feb. 2026
  • Seeing women throw shoulders in the paint, pick up yellow cards and soon, carve up the ice, fundamentally rewrites the mythology of sports for everyone — male, female and everyone in between in the Bay.
    — Dieter Kurtenbach, Mercury News, 19 May 2026
  • Confederate sympathizers carved up the old design, claiming the red-and-white Crossland pattern to signal rebellion loyalty.
    — Torrey Snow, Baltimore Sun, 4 Feb. 2026
  • While Missouri’s new map was aimed at carving up Kansas City, the redistricting frenzy is affecting voters — and election officials — across the state.
    — Kacen Bayless, Kansas City Star, 14 May 2026
  • By the 1960s, generations of boarders had carved up the original interiors, and a young couple saw an opportunity.
    — Adriane Quinlan, Curbed, 28 Nov. 2025
  • The Missouri Supreme Court, in a unanimous ruling, found the map itself, which carves up Kansas City, was legal and didn’t violate the state’s constitution.
    — Kansas City Star, 13 May 2026

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