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place restrictions on
curtail drinking in school -
return in time
the film cut back to an earlier event in the story -
cultivate, tend, and cut back the growth of
dress the plants in the garden -
cut down on; make a reduction in
reduce your daily fat intake
The employer wants to cut back health benefits
How To Use cut back In A Sentence
- Officials have already said that to protect the environment the region may have to cut back the coal production that is stoking its economic furnace. Times, Sunday Times
- If you think the public is willing to cut back to that level, you probably believe in elves, too. Matthew Yglesias » The Strange Persistence of Carbon Tax Advocates
- Is it the duty of an already stretched institution to duplicate the role of common rooms, to cut back the funding to its essential political role, and seek to maintain an unwieldy sabbatical structure?
- Burned in recent years by huge unsold inventories of movie merchandise and fearful of the slowing economy, everyone from toymakers and retailers to moviemakers has cut back.
- The Corporation, which controls London's financial centre, wants to cut back on free parking bays.
- But our haimish breed of armchair soldiers hasn't been confronted with the draft, rationing, or the bill for our foreign adventures; these homespun hawks haven't had to cut back on resources, food, or any comfort, however slight, as part of the war effort. Ben Tripp: It's Time to Grow Up
- The probation trust needs to cut back on frills and extras like this. The Sun
- When summer-flowering perennials such as bellflowers, geraniums, lychnis, Shasta daisies, and spiderworts finish blooming and start to look tattered, cut back their stems to the rosette of new foliage.
- They will be concerned to cut back expenditure on unnecessary items.
- And then when she solves the mystery, they cut back to her revealing it to the interested parties, a father and son.