whittle in English

verb
1
carve (wood) into an object by repeatedly cutting small slices from it.
He volleyed as if he was using his racket to whittle wood, slicing this way and that and caressing the ball into submission.

Use "whittle" in a sentence

Below are sample sentences containing the word "whittle" from the English Dictionary. We can refer to these sentence patterns for sentences in case of finding sample sentences with the word "whittle", or refer to the context using the word "whittle" in the English Dictionary.

1. Sarah Whittle: Don't ever call me crazy, Alan!

2. Whittle ignored the query on the farm's actual location.

3. Whittle struck back at critics of his educational policies.

4. Don't whittle the stick into a short one.

5. SM Wilkinson, JE Alarcon, R Mulyani, J Whittle, SC Chian

6. The recent election results have whittle away the government's power.

7. Red and Roy whittle the lead back down to nine.

8. Whittle showed me what exists between the course and Gullane Bay.

9. Jog a few miles before breakfast, whittle off the campaign flab.

10. You may conveniently whittle your wine selection using one of The Aerie’s easy-to-use iPads

11. Here, Brian Whittle, in his first major championships, awaited Kriss Akabussi.

12. Do you constantly whittle away at a problem , trying to find a solution?

13. Their approach is to whittle away at the evidence to show reasonable doubt.

14. Advancing down the main road, they managed to enter the trench Whittle was holding.

15. Well, when he bends down to whittle something, you can always see a testes.

16. I believe that the Government's general aim is to whittle away the Welfare State.

17. This uses a succession of cues to whittle away the alternatives until only one remains.

18. Make this plug smaller for me, but do not whittle away too much wood.

19. He felt the urge to whittle on it with a knife, but no urge to speak.

20. 29 I believe that the Government's general aim is to whittle away the Welfare State.

21. He began to whittle away all powers of the government that he did not control.

22. The man with the kidney lips folded his knife and stood up and brushed the whittle shavings out of his lap.

23. Visitors can even whittle away time at the airport's 143 shops and 23 eateries while awaiting flights.

24. Among the adjectives similarly preserved are to whittle, to wilt and to Approbate. THE AMERICAN LANGUAGE HENRY L

25. The headquarter of Beldam Crossley Ltd is sited in Rear Crosses Barn Shaw Brow Whittle-Le-Woods Chorley England 0 United Kingdom.

26. The Grim Reaper can cut life short and, under the right circumstances, whittle those still standing down to the size of pygmies.

27. 27 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.

28. "There is greater public interest in protecting private life -- and that interest must tolerate the occasional missed misdemeanour," said Whittle, a former BBC controller of editorial policy.

29. "We are actually seeing the sound waves," Whittle said. "There are little ones on top of bigger ones, all adding to give the appearance of random patchiness."

30. From this, Whittle could turn the relative number and strength of waves of different sizes into the relative loudness of high and low pitch notes.

31. Whittle, whose primary area of research relates to galaxy formation,[http://Sentencedict.com] presented his cosmic riff at a recent meeting of the American Astronomical Society in Denver.

32. A full-size replica has been placed on an obelisk on a roundabout near the northern perimeter of Farnborough Airfield in Hampshire, as a memorial to Sir Frank Whittle.

33. By the second and third quarters of the fourth millennium BC, the Upper Kennet Valley of central southern England, within which Avebury is located, had become a major focus for settlement, tomb building and periodic gatherings (Whittle et al

34. Whittle et al. (2004) conducted surveys of PBDE levels in fish communities of Lake Ontario and Lake Michigan in 2001 and 2002 and evaluated biomagnification in the local pelagic food web (net plankton/Mysis/Diporeia → forage fish (smelt/sculpin/alewife) → lake trout).

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