How to Use wood carving in a Sentence

wood carving

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  • Mas is the place to go for some of the best wood carving on the island.
    — Elizabeth Woodson, ELLE Decor, 26 Mar. 2012
  • The wood carving of the temple is two pandas in a tree.
    — Jazz Tangcay, Variety, 11 Mar. 2022
  • 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 intricate, dark-wood carving from 1642 was placed on the mantel on Thursday.
    — San Diego Union-Tribune, 19 Mar. 2022
  • From the Marche du Nain Rouge to arts and craft shows, a wood carving exhibit and comedy events, here are five things to do for the weekend of March 22-24.
    — Brendel Hightower, Detroit Free Press, 21 Mar. 2024
  • No one is sure how long bats have been at the library, built in 1728 and furnished with black lacquered shelves, wood carvings and gold brought in from the Portuguese colony of Brazil.
    — Patricia Kowsmann, WSJ, 17 June 2018
  • 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
  • The head skins were mounted on unprocessed wood carvings.
    — Washington Post, 11 Oct. 2019
  • The main building is a lovely affair of wood paneling, wood art, and Maori wood carving.
    — Chris Lee, Ars Technica, 5 Apr. 2018
  • 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
  • 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
  • Your first stop is a small town that specializes in wood carving and furniture building.
    — Antonia Neubauer, Town & Country, 5 Oct. 2016
  • The rest of the block consists of elegant new buildings in grey brick adorned with decorative wood carvings.
    — The Economist, 10 May 2018
  • 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
  • In terms of surviving the wild, simple wood carving may seem like busy work, frivolous, or even worthless.
    — Popular Science, 14 Apr. 2020
  • There are extensive wood carvings and marker graffiti all over the place.
    — Cyrus Farivar, Ars Technica, 24 Feb. 2018
  • Above the unused fireplace is a single lit candle and framed portraits of dead relatives, watched over by a wood carving of Our Lady of Guadalupe.
    — Nic Garcia, Dallas News, 29 Nov. 2020
  • Picture five bedrooms and six bathrooms in a 1957 home with exposed beams, delicate wood carvings and a stone sculpture by Gordon Newell in the garden.
    — Karen D'souza, The Mercury News, 9 July 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
  • There’s people that do mosaics, wood carving and ceramics.
    — Jessi Virtusio, Daily Southtown, 13 June 2019
  • 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
  • This artifact also bears resemblance to the former oldest wood carving found in Britain, a wooden post unearthed in south Wales in 2012.
    — Christopher Parker, Smithsonian Magazine, 9 June 2023
  • Find everything from artisan wood carvings to handmade soaps and candles to gifts for children.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 19 Oct. 2018
  • Plus, a chainsaw wood carving demonstration, student art show, target shooting, archery, kids world, craft vendors and food trucks.
    — Arkansas Online, 24 Aug. 2021
  • That means that this artifact predates Stonehenge by about 2,000 years—the oldest wood carving ever discovered in England.
    — Christopher Parker, Smithsonian Magazine, 9 June 2023
  • 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 Wethersfield Art League members will showcase their artwork and the public is invited to view and purchase pieces that include traditional art, mixed media and wood carving.
    — Hartford Courant, 12 May 2022
  • Among some of the treasured items lost in the fire were an 8-foot-wide painting of a Nativity scene that Durtschi had given his wife, wood carvings her father had made, his motorcycle and their children’s bicycles.
    — Andrea Castillo and John Wilkens, Anchorage Daily News, 7 July 2018
  • 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
  • Guests also should take the chance to try their hand at some traditional Hawaiian activities, of which there are so many throughout the week, like wood carving, lei making, hula, ukulele, and canoe paddling.
    — Dobrina Zhekova, Travel + Leisure, 10 Apr. 2024

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