How to Use wood carving in a Sentence

wood carving

noun
  • Mas is the place to go for some of the best wood carving on the island.
    — Elizabeth Woodson, ELLE Decor, 26 Mar. 2012
  • So go ahead and pair a bed frame with sharp lines and angles with a bench that shows off some ornate wood carving.
    — Tessa Cooper, Better Homes & Gardens, 30 July 2024
  • His features have the quality of a wood carving come to life, like something of the earth.
    — Stephanie Zacharek, Time, 21 Nov. 2025
  • Your first stop is a small town that specializes in wood carving and furniture building.
    — Antonia Neubauer, Town & Country, 5 Oct. 2016
  • At Good Folk there are locally made wood carvings and paintings.
    — Candice Rainey, Condé Nast Traveler, 19 Jan. 2023
  • There are extensive wood carvings and marker graffiti all over the place.
    — Cyrus Farivar, Ars Technica, 24 Feb. 2018
  • Tribal members taught fans about wood carving and weaving at the stadium.
    — ABC News, 2 July 2026
  • Marquesan wood carving, dance and music form part of the islands’ heritage.
    — Lilit Marcus, CNN, 31 July 2024
  • The main building is a lovely affair of wood paneling, wood art, and Maori wood carving.
    — Chris Lee, Ars Technica, 5 Apr. 2018
  • In terms of surviving the wild, simple wood carving may seem like busy work, frivolous, or even worthless.
    — Popular Science, 14 Apr. 2020
  • The rest of the block consists of elegant new buildings in grey brick adorned with decorative wood carvings.
    — The Economist, 10 May 2018
  • Find everything from artisan wood carvings to handmade soaps and candles to gifts for children.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 19 Oct. 2018
  • Artists came up with their own designs, and our national bird appeared on weathervanes, pottery, wood carvings and plaques.
    — Brenda Yenke, cleveland, 10 Aug. 2023
  • Take a look at stained glass, fabric, wood carving, pottery, painting and other types of works, from Ohio and from around the country.
    — Anne Nickoloff, cleveland, 5 Aug. 2021
  • To his right sat a nearly life-sized wood carving of the American icon, sporting a cowboy hat, leather vest and white bandana.
    — Marina Starleaf Riker, ExpressNews.com, 31 Dec. 2019
  • Throughout there are animal wood carvings and beadwork, the latter often hung from sculptures made of tree branches.
    — Todd Martens, Los Angeles Times, 4 Feb. 2026
  • Plus, a chainsaw wood carving demonstration, student art show, target shooting, archery, kids world, craft vendors and food trucks.
    — Arkansas Online, 24 Aug. 2021
  • This year's signature artist is local Sara Tabbert, whose wood carvings, paintings and prints can be seen all over the state.
    — Yoshina Okamoto, Anchorage Daily News, 17 May 2018
  • The intricate, dark-wood carving from 1642 was placed on the mantel on Thursday.
    — San Diego Union-Tribune, 19 Mar. 2022
  • Chip ‘n’ Dale appear in multiple locations, from a silhouette in the drapes to wood carvings in the bedroom.
    — Dewayne Bevil, Orlando Sentinel, 3 July 2024
  • And don’t miss peeking into the hotel’s wood carving studio to see talented artisans in action.
    — Livia Hengel, Forbes.com, 22 Apr. 2025
  • His hobbies included gardening, woodworking and wood carving which won many ribbons from the local fairs.
    — courant.com, 23 Oct. 2019
  • The letter was in response to a homeless man storming the church and smashing a 200-year-old wood carving of Mary with a large rock.
    — Fox News, 27 Dec. 2019
  • The family made wood carvings, weavings, and other crafts to sell to tourists as well, small mementos of time spent in the family’s home in the shadow of the mountains.
    — Michael Canyon Meyer, Outside Online, 24 June 2019
  • Galleries, studios, and shops display and sell the art, sculpture, pottery, wood carvings, and jewelry of local artisans.
    — Patricia Doherty, Travel + Leisure, 17 Apr. 2023
  • The craft kit includes two wood carving blocks (one cherry and one basswood), a super-sharp carving knife, sharpening supplies, a birdie template and three types of sandpaper.
    — Nora Colomer, Fox News, 10 Aug. 2024
  • The exhibition captures fragments of life frozen in time through wood carvings on stained birch planks — a hand with its fingers crossed, a leaf suspended mid-fall and a ballerina’s foot.
    — Violet Goldstone, WWD, 21 Oct. 2024
  • The beautiful space, with its high ceilings and dark wood carvings, is now a museum and research library, with over 40,000 books.
    — Zanny Merullo, Travel + Leisure, 21 June 2026
  • Its vocabulary will focus on Haida visual arts, like wood carving, but Gwaai believes that the concepts could easily be applied to film, too.
    — Julian Brave Noisecat, The New Yorker, 14 Nov. 2019
  • One favorite find is a circa 1950 Japanese cryptomeria wood carving of a toad, complete with baby toads on its back; this takes pride of place in the foyer.
    — Robert Rufino, House Beautiful, 4 Aug. 2022

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