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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
sculpt
verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
carve/sculpt a statue
▪ Some of the statues were carved by Quitainer.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ The statue is sculpted in solid marble.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Because she wanted somebody to teach her to paint and to sculpt, and Cresselton had the best teachers.
▪ Bernhardt stated that she continued to sculpt into old age to remain mentally alert.
▪ I wanted to sculpt the stalactites but we could not find the sculptors.
▪ J., uses the ancient technique of lost-wax sculpting to create her belts, earrings and other metal accessories.
▪ Louisa especially enjoyed sculpting more creatures and making up stories about how big and scary they were.
▪ Others are like sculpting in stone.
▪ She wants to try out everything - sculpting, knitting, clay-modelling, sketching - you name it.
▪ The tour guides say it took a year to sculpt each ceiling.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
sculpt

1826 (implied in sculpted), from French sculpter, from Latin sculpt-, past participle stem of sculpere "to carve" (see sculpture). Related: Sculpting. The older verb form was sculpture (1640s), also sculp (1530s).

Wiktionary
sculpt

vb. To be a sculptor

WordNet
sculpt
  1. v. create by shaping stone or wood or any other hard material; "sculpt a swan out of a block of ice" [syn: sculpture]

  2. shape (a material like stone or wood) by whittling away at it; "She is sculpting the block of marble into an image of her husband" [syn: sculpture, grave]

Wikipedia
Sculpt (film 2016)

Sculpt is a 2016 social science-fiction film written and directed by Loris Greaud.

Usage examples of "sculpt".

Val died, his gardens were abloom with chrysanthemums, the air golden, the oaks in his yard sculpted against a hard blue sky.

Conal now sat on its sculpted door, and absently traced a slender finger along an air intake, glowering at the envelope.

The silver ailettes topped a breastplate of gold, sculpted with muscles.

Then, panting hard, he broke free, rushed back to the armature and began sculpting without inhibition.

That night in our apartment, I kept expecting to see two teams of Bunraku masters standing behind John and me, pulling levers in our heads, sculpting every move we made.

She was still beautiful, of course, but her imperious nose suddenly seemed too perfectly sculpted, her eyes a shade too dark, her dazzling smile too full of passion and pride.

Catherine discovered it was fairly easy to sculpt the greenish-white ectoplasm she exuded into a crude semblance of the lost heiress.

The dampness of his shirt clung to the sculpting of his broad back, emphasizing the smooth glide of the bands of muscle that enwrapped his upper body.

Socrates as a sculpted head with blind exophthalmic eyes, and another likeness of a stolid bewigged man I believed must be Descartes.

Amanda lost in a chocolate truffle reverie, thin sculpted shells of creme fraiche and gin and Grand Marnier and liquid cherries and raspberry puree, imagined tastes the sweetest.

This Ganner was tall, broad-shouldered, and the light from his weapon gleamed on the sculpted muscle of his bare chest.

In amongst the sculpted grotesqueries and outcroppings fluttered the gonfalons, ensigns, and bannerets of a hundred dozen sects and cults, but one would have to be a hagiologist to be able to identify what each represented.

Not PF Flyers, the shoes that would have allowed me to run faster, jump higher, and sculpt the froth of space-time, but just an old pair of Keds with frayed laces.

Naked to the waist, every muscle taut, he was sculpted like the Kouros statue in the whirlpool tub at Avalon.

It advertised the type of sculpting for which Mehtar was most famous: An Alaloi man, with his thick jaw firmly set, held a spear and stood with his arm cocked as he sighted on the eye of an enraged, charging mammoth.