carve something up

Examples of carved

carved

In English, many past and present participles of verbs can be used as adjectives. Some of these examples may show the adjective use.

But rather surprisingly, the essence of opera as excessive, fatal and anxiety-ridden has been carved into the expressive quality of the film itself.
In the western bays the pairs of carved winged angels are expressive and sublime.
This points to a need to document the history of roulette wares and the particular importance of carved roulettes in the region.
Candidates from the same electoral district represented different constituencies as they carved up the district into different geographical and functional electoral bases.
He did not record the names or arrival dates of a single vessel carved into the whalebone.
This would have been a period of forest clearance, as people carved dispersed homesteads out of the tropical forest.
Thirdly is the corresponding hypothesis that the rune-like letters are imagined to be carved into the mast.
For cameos are small pieces of sculpture immersed in the domestic space of the home where they project carved images of women within everyday life.
They are tall, free-standing, pillar-like stelae with tapering form, usually with a rectangular cross-section and pictorial narrative scenes carved on all four sides in registers.
The bead subtype "other" refers to more elaborate geometrically carved beads.
Monuments include structures and large sculpture such as stelae that were carved with information about cosmologies and hierarchies of power.
The quotas are issued all at once for the volume of property rights carved out of atmospheric space as determined by an international agreement.
Female shoppers, enticed by new metropolitan retail development, carved out a space for middle- and upper-class women in the public spaces of the city.
Each solid was then carved sinusoidally in depth as a function of horizontal position with respect to the observer.
The gazetteers were also printed from carved wooden blocks.
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