"carve" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- Tallies by carving notches in wood, bone, and stone were used for at least forty thousand years.
- All lost persons carve notches on pieces of wood, each notch indicating another day they've been lost.
- Actually, it's a good idea to carve several notches right away, just in case you get found within the next fifteen minutes.
- The actual job was to get information back to your government, not to carve notches on your pistol grips.
- Patton is said to have carved notches into the pistols he carried, representing the men he killed with them.
- "We don't carve notches in our guns, Pats," John told his daughter.
- "Tandy's a good hand with a gun, all right, but he'd never carve notches on his gun."
- Banks wouldn't have been surprised if he had carved notches in his truncheon.
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