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Sentence Examples Skewer the marshmallow on an extra-long cooking fork or a stick cut from a tree and whittled to a point. She was top qualifier in the strokeplay section of the competition which whittled the field down to eight for two knockout rounds. That surplus is being unexpectedly whittled away as the income tax cut and the economic slowdown lower federal tax receipts. If your salary and benefits keep getting whittled away, eventually you have to take a stand against that. It's not the first few rounds of the cup, it's the quarter-final and the teams have been whittled down to the last eight. With a jackknife, he whittled a point on a thin green stick pulled from a maple branch. The arches tend to be on high piney ridges, whittled by water and wind and, in the case of a slender pillar at Sky Bridge Arch, by pocketknives. Last month ministers unveiled a shortlist of 15 sites across England that will eventually be whittled down to 10 eco-towns. His vertical stripes have been put onto a slant, and whittled down to slender triangles or widened into parallelograms or pyramids. The contest now hots up and votes are vital over the next few weeks as the contestants are whittled down to just two finalists. The judges whittled down the entries to nine finalists, and the winner was then chosen by an online vote. The edges were whittled down a little to make a smooth handle, and the ends were chamfered. In its final throes the decaying rock is whittled down into curious rounded shapes standing in a line, like a queue of shrouded figures. Gradually the lead was whittled down until there were only three points between the sides with a few minutes remaining. As she watched her lead gradually whittled away on election night, she could hear the first grumblings of discontent among the party faithful. A panel of judges whittled them down to the last three and we thought his was by far the best. On Wednesday, their provisional 67-man squad is whittled down to produce a final 37-man selection for this summer's tour to Australia. Hundreds of hopefuls entered the competition and judges at Boss Model agency have whittled them down to 10 boys and 10 girls. You can't help wondering why a company that whittled Hamlet down to 90 minutes needs two-and-a-half hours for a relatively obscure Chekhov story. All of the men whittled wood in their spare time, or even as they traveled, to keep them occupied. Show More Sentences She stepped in the draughty passageway, whittled by fresh winds though it was summer. A young man, his angular features sharp as if whittled by a knife, led the self-criticism. Women are reported to have liposuction to slim down tubby toes, or unsightly misshapen bones whittled smooth by laser. The list was eventually whittled down to just five names and from that came the choice of a model for the character. Once the judges had whittled the teams down, each school sent just two teams to the main competition. After two weeks of top-class tennis, the Wimbledon field has been whittled down to two finalists. Deadline is next Friday and the list of applicants will be whittled down in August. Thousands of hopefuls have sent in videos of themselves and have been whittled down to a hundred. Eventually the claims were whittled down to around a dozen which had some credibility. The plot and characterizations have been whittled into the barest of Hollywood hokum. The government, at its own peril, is going to continue to play this game, to cover up the facts and the details until it is whittled out. I only managed to escape by battling my way out of prison with a whittled down toothbrush for a cutlass and grenades fashioned from moist prison socks. The tubes are carefully whittled and cut by a master craftsperson to produce certain notes when the bamboo frame is shaken or tapped. Vast amounts are whittled away on such concepts as benchmarking and decentralisation, but urgent road projects are still being argued over at Oireachtas committees. Bat is now dominating where ball once did, and Sussex have whittled 120 off their 330-run requirement following a wicketless afternoon. The articles were whittled down from an original 2,412 on the basis of the strength of the studies. I am astounded by comments he made about how we have whittled down the surplus so that it is razor thin now. I note that the ten objectives which we adopted from the original statement have been whittled down to three. We refused to allow our other foreign policy priorities to be whittled away still further. We must reverse the trend whereby these widows' pensions are being whittled away. Show More Sentences Yet subsequent court decisions have whittled away the effectiveness of that legislation. The projects went under while the government handouts to get them started were whittled away. My grandparents owned a small farm, whittled down over the years to about 40 acres of bottomland, in some of the most productive agricultural land in America. An array of whittled bamboo sticks, each four millimeters in diameter, makes up the two-room installation. And he discussed some recent and very real troubles, as its endowment was whittled down. Tendering for the project has been whittled down to two consortia. A list of 400 disagreements over the document has been whittled down to just two. More than 50 students applied to take part following an advert in the student newspaper and were whittled down to the final four by a selection panel. In fact, he'd been writing lyrics over the previous few months, and he now whittled them down to four which he thought were suitable song material. For the last 14 months, that promise has been whittled away and not with a clear emphatic statement that the Conservatives would not honour the promise. It is very important to note that a big change could happen in terms of some of the charitable organizations or businesses in that their calls may whittled down, but at the same time they will have to pay for this registry. Seeing their gains in purchasing power being whittled away, employees, who are also customers, therefore push for even lower sales prices from companies. The harvest is the interest. When more fish are caught than the capacity of the resource to produce, namely more than the interest, then the capital is attacked, the resource is eroded and gradually it is whittled away. Prior to this, three preliminary knockout qualifying rounds whittled down the remaining teams, with different teams starting in different rounds. And also to schemes which will make them independent of the normal education, health care and public transport services, for these have been whittled down to a level that is now only acceptable to the losers. We have re-tabled some of those amendments in this plenary, for we have really whittled them down to what we think was really essential and necessary. Consequently, money set aside for investment in the quality of vessels, in their upkeep and in the social conditions and training of seafarers is ceaselessly being whittled away. There are several sorts of disease, but those in which carefulness, medicine and surgery offer no help are being whittled down in number every year. But the group has to be whittled down further, and just 20 wannabee Dorothies can make it to the next stage. The group's numbers were gradually whittled down as the shipless sailors and bewildered scientists floundered. Show More Sentences Since PIPEDA was passed, a series of Acts have gradually whittled away these limits, dangerously blurring the distinction between the public and private sectors and, in effect, deputizing the business community. With thriller, we took 800 songs and whittled them down to nine. Now that's been whittled down by public vote to a final round of 10 birds. Casual readers of history may think that the sovereignty of the Crown has been whittled down to the vanishing point, but apparent encroachments upon the Crown have added to its true dignity. They are concerned about what has happened during the economic crisis, as they see their savings frittered and whittled away by what has gone on in the markets. After nearly 10 months, the women's tennis season has been whittled down to eight players from eight different countries who will exchange blows and Twitter messages at the W. T. A. Championships in a ninth country: Turkey. Two other players with plausible cases were whittled off the ballot. We know very well that all that dialogue and concertation and so on has been whittled down to relations between five, then three, then two protagonists. Although it was clear from his report that he got to the bottom of the issue, I as a Liberal fail to agree with him, because I believe that, where possible, legislation should be whittled down a minimum. The competition for the 2012 and 2013 European Green Capital Awards has entered its final stages, with the 17 candidate cities now been whittled down to a shortlist of six. To receive her bachelor of social work degree, Amber had to complete a practicum placement. At the end she had whittled it down to three choices: two for-profit organizations and one nonprofit. Guns N' Roses' original lineup was whittled away throughout the decade. In it the UK's top five grease monkeys, whittled down from a list of one hundred A-level drop-outs, all competed for the most coveted title in the motor industry. Examples from Classical Literature He warmed the remaining half-can of salmon and whittled at his nubbin of bread. She dipped her brush into a pot of Vandyke brown and painted one of the whittled toy horses in two strokes. We were a pretty big section once, but Thurston's virus has whittled us down. He whittled and listened, gave monosyllabic replies, and, when it was asked, terse advice. Almost daily he whetted his keen knife and scraped and whittled at his young beard to eradicate this degrading emblem of apehood. I went with Musgrave to his study and whittled myself this peg, to which I tied this long string with a knot at each yard. Its handle was cut out with the coping saw and whittled to the lines. Breaking a thick branch off a poon tree he whittled away the minor stems. The cions are all whittled before the grafter enters the tree. Three, however, had had their concavity partly whittled flat. They are whittled round at one end and pointed at the other. The upper end was whittled so as to make a convenient handle for the user. She wanted a sail for that shingle craft I whittled out for her. They were between twenty and thirty feet long, and they had no hind flippers, but a shovel-like tail that looked as if it had been whittled out of wet leather. Aidan O'Brien has whittled his raiding party down to two with Jacobean emerging as the chief Ballydoyle contender, though O'Brien also saddles Newmarket winner Aloft. Find more words! 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