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Example sentences for: whittle

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

Ickes pushed hard to whittle down the group's commission, reducing it to 5 percent by the end of the campaign.
Whittle himself greeted me, dressed, as he almost always is, in a sweater and bow tie.
Look for this study to be used by tobacco manufacturers in an attempt to whittle the cost of any state or national tobacco deal, even though it merely illustrates the truism that dying of old age is the most expensive way to go.
Of course, you may say, it means to argue over a price, hopefully to whittle it down to size.
"I am Chris Whittle, the one true God.