carve something out of something

The hotel was carved out of an early 20th-century office building.

The trees stood as if carved out of the dark.

It looks like an old man carved out of a tree.

Really, you look at him now and he looks like he's been carved out of wood.

It looked to have been carved out of a whole mountain.

Yet writing it was like carving himself out of a mountain.

It was carved, after much debate, out of a hill in the late 1930s.

It looked like a hall that had been carved out of the rock.

This church has been carved out of the cliff face in the 7th Century.

"The courses are all carved out of the trees, and they set up well for my game."