Carved in example sentence

When Pakistan was carved out of India by the departing British in the 1947 Partition, the 562 “princely states” (regions nominally ruled by assorted potentates, but owing allegiance to the British Raj) were required to accede to either of the two new countries.

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Brass nails tacked into the ebony wood, your face has been carved five times.

Since then, I've carved out this little niche for myself on the internet as an inventor of useless machines, because as we all know, the easiest way to be at the top of your field is to choose a very small field.

The dictionary is not carved out of a piece of granite, out of a lump of rock.

Each one was pinched or carved out of a ball of clay, and it was the imperfections that people cherished.

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