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Example sentences for: pared

How can you use “pared” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

In the new, all-star adaptation of An Ideal Husband , one of Wilde's richest plays, writer-director Oliver Parker has practically pared the speeches down to their topic sentences.
Such books are derivatives of larger dictionaries in a publisher's line, pared down to make them smaller and not directly competitive and priced lower.
Davis' writing assumed a pared down pop sensibility on tunes like "Stuff," from Miles in the Sky . It's a cocky funk tune that wouldn't be worth its 17 minutes if the soloists weren't Miles Davis and Wayne Shorter.
Debate in the White House and at the CIA about possible collateral damage pared the list down to three, then to one- Iraqi intelligence headquarters in central Baghdad.
Everything is pared down, black-and-white, elemental.