Example sentences for: whittled

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

  • "Ellison did not leave behind the shapely building that Callahan has given us," Gregory Feeley wrote last month in the New York Times Magazine . Critics quoted in the article complain that sections of the novel published as excerpts during Ellison's lifetime are missing, that important characters have withered or vanished, and that 1,500 or more pages have been whittled down to 350.

  • Polling has whittled politics into a science, and money has monstrously deflated the importance of grassroots support.

  • By the time of the Spanish–American War of 1898, the Spanish empire of the Golden Age had been whittled to insignificance.

  • It dislodged Pisa in the western Mediterranean, whittled away at Venice’s hold on eastern ports, and set up colonies on the Black Sea for trade with Russia and faraway Cathay.

  • Surely a kinder and sadder story can be whittled from the same evidence, to wit: that Hillary, a blue-stocking in love with a glamorpuss, had too eagerly bought Bill's Gladstone-like tales of helping troubled young women to find peace: enough so anyway to make a potential laughingstock of herself by repeating them on television, and enough also to give Bill some terrible legal advice in the specific matter of Monica.


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