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How to use whittling in a sentence

Looking for sentences and phrases with the word whittling? Here are some examples.

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We were inundated with responses, and judges had a tough decision whittling down the entries to a short-list of five.
That chiseling sound you hear in the world next door is the slow whittling away of the last vestiges of the logocentric tradition.
Excitedly, Vivienne raised her camera to capture the woman on film, then snapped some shots of an old man whittling a piece of wood.
A willowy soldier leaned against a tree near where he stood, whittling a piece of wood.
Australia names its team to play Ireland on Wednesday with the task of whittling down a side which ran in a record 22 tries on Saturday.
Sometimes a long period of whittling away at the front-runner can lead to boredom and apathy.
Her third work, a video performance, depicts him performing as an old man, whittling an amorphous shape.
The Americans of the volunteers joked about how whittling wood was an American habit.
He had given the horses some grain, and now he was whittling a figure out of a piece of wood.
The show features local artists and carvers and has some fun contests like duck and goose calling, decoy rigs, whittling, and model sneakboxes.
As I sat in my alfresco office whittling away at a divining rod, a beaten up old truck screeched to a halt.
He leaned against the muddy wall of the trench furiously whittling a knotted tree branch.
Other blade tools, such as denticulates and spokeshaves, have multiple, deep, retouched notches and probably functioned as shredders or, possibly, as whittling implements.
It turns out it's whittling wooden figurines for schoolchildren.
What are we losing right now by whittling down Canadian drama on prime time?
The group, which included town councillors and main figures in the development process, debated a number of options before whittling them down to three main contenders.
Not about that fact that whittling was involved, nor perhaps on the skill and artistry of my fellow whittlers, but the fact that I could ever hope to produce anything.
Sunday was a time for washing clothes, mending socks, whittling wood or continuing a story from the night before.
We use the smaller spokeshave to soften the sharp edges, then very carefully round off the ends with our whittling knife.
A halt should be brought to the gradual whittling away of human rights internationally.
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He was whittling as he considered a challenge from Tip Taylor to shoot a match.
Another, named Jacob Behel, invented a knotter, whittling it out of a branch of a cherry tree.
He snailed over his whittling as we laughed heartily at the droll effect of it all.
He resumed his whittling, refusing to answer any questions, vociferating that he was busy.
Carl questioned, laying down his whittling and facing his mother.
But the whittling keeps his hands and eyes busy, and steadies his nerves.
Some were whittling, some making aimless marks in the dust with a stick.
The detective was whittling, dropping the chips into the waste-basket.
May be not, taking out a stick and whittling a toothpick, but I rayther guess you'll be done brown if that ere harpooneer hears you a slanderin' his head.
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