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whittled

Meaning

of Whittle

Source: Webster's dictionary

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I was in Big In Japan between '77 and '78. Then I went solo, releasing a couple of singles. Then I joined the Dancing Girls who turned into the Sons Of Egypt who were then whittled down into Frankie Goes To Hollywood. Holly Johnson

For far too long the American public and business sector have kept their silence as civil liberties have been whittled away by statutory and regulatory measures. Bob Barr

Having each some shingles of thought well dried, we sat and whittled them. Henry David Thoreau

Temporal was the first recording that captured my true guitar sound (dinosaurs slipping and blocks of wire whittled with a feather). The mood of the world was different and yet music (sculpted time) always is there waiting to be manifested. Shawn Lane

Journalism was being whittled away by a Wall Street theory that profits can be maximized by minimizing the product. Russell Baker

But all good things come to an end, often a sad angry miserable end. The cause for such an end can usually be whittled down to one of three things: money, sickness, love lost. James Frey

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