Examples of 'whittled down' in a sentence

Meaning of "whittled down"

Whittled down - This phrase is used to describe the process of gradually reducing or narrowing something, typically a list or group

How to use "whittled down" in a sentence

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I have whittled down the primary arguments.
I thought he already whittled down this list.
It whittled down the peloton quickly.
Which was gradually whittled down to three.
It was whittled down to practically nothing.
More and more our options are whittled down.
Their numbers were whittled down through a series of tests.
Whittled down to nothing.
Everything can be whittled down to a formula.
I whittled down this list from a couple of dozen titles.
Below is the whittled down list.
We whittled down this list.
Every marketing challenge can be whittled down to a mathematical equation.
The list of things to buy for the boat was also being whittled down.
We will be whittled down to toothpicks.

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The office of the inspector general has been whittled down to the bone.
That has been whittled down over the opening weekend.
So even if we get whittled down.
This was later whittled down to seven tracks averaging six minutes each.
But we have seen that democracy being whittled down systematically.
I have whittled down the primary arguments into talking points for obvious reasons.
And prevent them from being whittled down to nothing.
They are whittled down spectacle lenses from some flea market in Amsterdam.
The heroes tribe was quickly whittled down to only five members.
In the eleven years since, my ambitions have been whittled down.
The group would be whittled down to five or six semifinalists.
Convergence happens when a large number of ideas are whittled down to a smaller set.
Those were whittled down to seven.
Whatever benefits you may have now are going to get whittled down to nothing.
This initial long list is whittled down at a first ballot to a short list of five.
His ragtag group of soldiers and ex prisoners is gradually whittled down to eleven survivors.
The group had whittled down to me and Molly.
She has so many notches on her bedpost, it 's almost whittled down to a toothpick.
The players were whittled down to sixteen for the final stages on Sunday.
Over one weekend the forty were whittled down to twenty.
They are then whittled down to two in a series of secret votes by Conservative MPs.
Baby carrots are just large carrots whittled down into miniature versions.
They get whittled down until there's only one team left.
Looks like your outfit got whittled down some on the trail.
I've whittled down the primary arguments into talking points for obvious reasons.
Even if it caused him to get whittled down kind of gradual like.
We whittled down this list . We can change that.
Their numbers have been whittled down until only four remain.
We've got a while to go before GOP choices are whittled down.
And when the other opponents were whittled down to a single remaining opponent.
But when it got to the House, the teeth were whittled down.
The group had pretty much whittled down to just me and Molly.
The class of small proprietors, rural and urban, has been whittled down.
Harvey 's been whittled down to expect very little of the city.
An already small number will be permanently whittled down further and further.

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