Sentences with whittled
whit·tle
W w - To whittle a figure.
- To whittle down the company's overhead; to whittle away one's inheritance.
- Three, you represented such good value, then you slowly whittled it away with shifting goalposts.
- The Opposition was furious at the prospect of having its hold on the Senate whittled away by the desertion of its former ally.
- To spend an afternoon whittling.
- Goodwin was one of 20 finalists whittled down from 7500 applicants who auditioned for the first series of the program.
- Having whittled down equity in their home through successive re-mortgages to pay private school fees.
- We're being told to conserve water, yet any reductions we make by way of consumption is whittled away by population growth.