whittle down造句
(1) We need to whittle down the list of guests for the party.
(2) The president has agreed to whittle down his proposal.
(3) I finally managed to whittle down the names on the list to only five.
(4) You can rely on these keen-eyed bowmen to whittle down the enemy's numbers as they advance.
(5) This is good because it allows you to whittle down those superior numbers.
(6) They won't whittle down your salaries.
(7) They are trying to whittle down our salaries.
(8) Other ways to whittle down banks are thinkable.
(9) Eliminate the filler, and whittle down your notes from every class or reading into a specific portion- a page, or 1/2 a page.
(10) Vague vows to whittle down wasteful spending have been effective until now.
(11) China is also trying to whittle down iron-ore prices in talks with Rio and other suppliers.
(12) Nowak has been busy working on how to whittle down the emergence of life into the simplest possible chemical system that he can describe mathematically.
(13) Earlier efforts by Mr. Gates to whittle down his partner's stake in Microsoft were successful though, according to Mr.
(14) Profits are whittle down by the ever - rising cost of energy.
(15) This war is a bid by the Tigrayan nationalists to whittle down their northern neighbour.
(16) Many of the recent suggestions for change have sought to whittle down that authority.
(17) Their resistance and boycott threat might instead be more of an effort to whittle down the markup that Rio Tinto is seeking in current contract negotiations.
(18) But if you looked at them and said, "I want to reach the top five in online music, " you can whittle down the list.
(19) Challenged with a 100 million euro deficit, one western German city has introduced a day tax on prostitutes to help whittle down its budget gap.
(20) A tougher market environment and higher industry standards would eventually whittle down the sector to just a handful of local companies, said YK Lee, analyst at Core Pacific-Yamaichi.
(21) With the hardware coming into its own as a portable gaming, social networking and all-round super device, this task may be extremely difficult to whittle down.
(22) If you start with a thick shoe and slowly whittle down, at what point does the person start to run like they're barefoot?
(23) BERLIN (Reuters Life! ) – Challenged with a 100 million euro ($133 million) deficit, one western German city has introduced a day tax on prostitutes to help whittle down its budget gap.
(24) One of the central intellectual projects in The Constitution of Liberty is the Humean one to use reason to whittle down the claims of Reason.