whittle

How To Use whittle In A Sentence

• Flakes with concavities exhibiting steep, unifacial retouch were used to whittle or plane wood, and flakes displaying spurs were used to incise bone or antler.
• It's not the first few rounds of the cup, it's the quarter-final and the teams have been whittled down to the last eight.
• So much for postcrisis efforts to whittle banks down to a more-manageable size. J.P. Morgan Plays a $20 Billion Hand
• Gradually I whittled down my criteria. IN FORKBEARD'S WAKE: Coasting Round Scandinavia
• That surplus is being unexpectedly whittled away as the income tax cut and the economic slowdown lower federal tax receipts.
• The arches tend to be on high piney ridges, whittled by water and wind and, in the case of a slender pillar at Sky Bridge Arch, by pocketknives.
• a scarlet "whittle" over all this motley finery; with a "outwork quoyf or ciffer" (New England French for coiffure) with "long wings" at the side, and a silk or tiffany hood on her drooping head, -- Priscilla in this attire were pretty indeed. Sabbath in Puritan New England
• The museum is worried that government funding will be whittled away.
• The captain coming up to have a little conversation, and to introduce a friend, seated himself astride of one of these barrels, like a Bacchus of private life; and pulling a great clasp-knife out of his pocket, began to 'whittle' it as he talked, by paring thin slices off the edges. American Notes
• Now it's YOUR turn to whittle that list down to five. The Sun