How to Use sculpt in a Sentence

sculpt

verb
  • Sculpt your back with push-ups.
  • She carefully sculpted the wood.
  • The children painted and sculpted all morning.
  • To perfect your squat, grow your glutes, and sculpt your legs, this is the place to start.
    Brett Williams, Men's Health, 3 Jan. 2023
  • In 1959, he was chosen to sculpt a trophy for the game from a piece of maple.
    oregonlive, 27 June 2020
  • Start with a soft matte base to sculpt and define the eyes.
    India Espy-Jones, Essence, 9 Oct. 2024
  • The movie is black-and-white and every face in it seems to be sculpted from light.
    Bela Shayevich, Harper's Magazine, 11 Oct. 2023
  • Alexander Balz, one of the artists, said the hardest parts to sculpt were the spacesuits.
    Aj Willingham, CNN, 27 July 2019
  • In response, Levine set out to sculpt the objects out of wood.
    Los Angeles Times, 29 May 2021
  • Two branches of the tree were sculpted to look like a woman’s arms open to the sky.
    Jeastman, oregonlive, 28 June 2023
  • How have the tools for sculpting changed in the past century?
    Washington Post, 13 Aug. 2019
  • The clay heads took six weeks to sculpt and the bodies will take between four to six months to complete.
    NBC News, 1 May 2021
  • Marc Mellon is sculpting the work, which will be about 7 feet tall.
    Marc Bona, cleveland, 4 Feb. 2020
  • During the day, the group sculpted a statue of an elephant out of mud.
    Dino Grandoni and Kim Bellware, Anchorage Daily News, 6 Sep. 2023
  • The clearest view of her short nails, which were sculpted by her go-to artist Saccia, is on the third slide.
    Gabi Thorne, Allure, 14 July 2023
  • The star was toned all over, but her abs looked super sculpted in a see-through black lace dress.
    Olivia Evans, Women's Health, 1 Mar. 2023
  • They're fitted through the thighs and subtly flared at the bottom, while the high-rise waist smooths and sculpts your stomach.
    Theresa Holland, Travel + Leisure, 16 Feb. 2024
  • The high rise and sculpting fabric hugs you in all the right places while elongating your legs.
    Erika Reals, Peoplemag, 6 Oct. 2023
  • Each figure is hand-sculpted by an artist out of clay to match the likeness of the subject.
    Jennifer Billock, Smithsonian, 15 Aug. 2019
  • Hoodoos are rocky spires that have been sculpted by erosion over time.
    Eve Chen, USA TODAY, 3 June 2023
  • The piece consists of 38 small sculptures, each on its own shelf, each sculpted out of air-dry clay.
    Robert Boyd, Chron, 22 Feb. 2023
  • To sculpt a cat eye, Iris starts soft at the inner corners and builds volume and length on the outer edges.
    Vogue, 12 Dec. 2021
  • The artist, Meredith Bergmann, first sculpted the figure in clay.
    Grace Ashford Cindy Schultz, New York Times, 12 Mar. 2023
  • Slush collects into round shapes and the waves sculpt the ice chunks into orbs.
    Frank Witsil, Detroit Free Press, 24 Jan. 2022
  • The trainer used a facial device to sculpt and lift my eye area, cheekbones and jaw.
    Larry Stansbury, Essence, 25 July 2024
  • Of course, this legend is still as strong and sculpted as ever.
    Jacqueline Tempera, Women's Health, 28 Feb. 2023
  • Slush collects into round shapes and the waves sculpt ice chunks into orbs.
    Bisma Parvez, Detroit Free Press, 17 Feb. 2020
  • Then, once a bump begins to protrude from the thorax, the wing genes turn off and a new group of genes takes over to enlarge and sculpt the horn.
    Erica Tennenhouse, Science | AAAS, 21 Nov. 2019
  • On her cheeks, nothing too brash, just a faint dusting of coral blush to sculpt and define.
    Georgia Day, Vogue, 27 Feb. 2024
  • Which means that the animators don’t have to constantly sculpt the clay.
    Scott Roxborough, The Hollywood Reporter, 27 Oct. 2024

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