The word "carving" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used as a verb to describe the act of cutting or sculpting something with a knife or chisel, or as a noun to describe a sculpture or decorative object created by carving. Example sentence: The artist spent hours carving the intricate design into the marble.
The Osborne-Bernstein deal was like two mafia bosses carving up Apulia.
Inside the "big tent" at the cabinet table and as a party in the four-part coalition, the SDLP has tried to sound oppositional and has even accused the big two, Sinn Féin and the DUP, of carving up the goodies between themselves.
In one of her last interviews, she described a perfect day at her Porthmeor studio watching the Atlantic rollers carving the shoreline in these terms: "The strokes of the hammer on the chisel should be in time with your heartbeat.
Cameron has looked medically exhausted since about February, Clegg has become so utterly submerged in self-loathing that he now spends his days reading horrible tweets about himself out loud and Miliband has already lost the strength of mind to realise that carving vaguely worded platitudes into a limestone slab is the very stupidest thing that any human being has ever suggested.
She is far from being cloying or cutesy but, for someone who has spent the past few years carving out a reputation in the French film world for playing damaged and fragile women who can wreak murderous havoc, she is actually, on the surface at least, bouncingly normal.
She had her first exhibition – which was a success particularly among collectors of ancient Chinese carving - in June 1928 with Skeaping, and the following year their son Paul was born.
She revolutionised the possibilities of carving by insisting on complex interiors to her work, as well as smooth exteriors, overcoming personal tragedy through her art.
And it's not the only one – over the past decade, thousands of well-to-do Salvadorans have retreated into gated communities, carving out pockets of suburban, southern California in the heart of central America.
In an effort to shift her out of her unproductive despair, her close friend Margaret Gardiner went with her on a trip to Greece to look at classical sculpture and carving.
She continued to put in her eight-hour shifts, "to play it hard" at her St Ives studios, working on those large-scale public commissions, and returning to her first love of carving marble on a more intimate scale.
"At this time," Hepworth said, "all the carvings were an effort to find a personal accord with the stones or wood which I was carving.
