Examples of 'whittled' in a sentence

Meaning of "whittled"

whittle (verb) - To reduce something in size, amount, or extent gradually by removing small amounts of it
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  • simple past tense and past participle of whittle

How to use "whittled" in a sentence

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I see you whittled them down a bit.
In subsequent years this directive was whittled away.
I whittled it myself out of a solid bough of oak.
I thought he already whittled down this list.
I was whittled alongside someone a lot like you.
The program was gradually whittled away.
Eventually we whittled the list down to four.
We have seen the limitations on government whittled away.
I have whittled down the primary arguments.
Which was gradually whittled down to three.
That whittled the choices down to three.
I have not seen an extremely whittled one either.
I whittled that out of beech wood.
Everything can be whittled down to a formula.
He whittled it for you before he sent me up.

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Below is the whittled down list.
And whittled the former zapatera tribe do to two.
The rights of indigenous people have been whittled away.
The way she whittled away at my friends.
More and more our options are whittled down.
I am proud that we whittled it down to these three so quickly.
The autonomy of the courts was whittled away.
Their numbers were whittled down through a series of tests.
Whittled you this earlier.
He eventually whittled the number to four.
I whittled down this list from a couple of dozen titles.
Our voice is being whittled away.
I have whittled it down to just two.
So even if we get whittled down.
And we whittled that list down.
We started with something more complicated and whittled it down.
Even whittled a cross for him.
These remaining communities were later whittled away at in other events.
We whittled away at the fine principles.
I guess history has just whittled it down to the gems.
It whittled down the peloton quickly.
Every marketing challenge can be whittled down to a mathematical equation.
I have whittled it out from an elm in the pharmacy garden.
Our disposable income in our pockets actually is being whittled away.
It was whittled down to practically nothing.
The surface is whittled partly.
They whittled us down too.
But we have seen that democracy being whittled down systematically.
I have whittled you a giraffe.
Looking as if they were whittled.
Means that we have whittled our list of genetic diseases.
Whittled and painted in my workshop.
The group would be whittled down to five or six semifinalists.
Whittled down to nothing.
Those were whittled down to seven.

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