Sentence examples for I curtailed from inspiring English sources

In earlier years, I curtailed spending if I thought I might take a financial hit, even if the income was a drop in the bucket.

In those days I was an insomniac, but I also curtailed my high life: 10pm and I was off to the stack of novels, usually borrowed from the London Library, which lay in piles around my bed.

'And my blood pressure thing it helps because if I find one day that it's up a bit then I will curtail what I'm doing and relax and rest and change what I'm doing that day to adapt myself so my blood pressure goes down again' (P12).

Why would I be curtailed by it?

Would I be able to stand seeing those I love curtail their own lives to make a little more of mine?

I haven't curtailed my social life to facilitate being teetotal and I don't tell people I don't drink unless I'm asked; I'm happy to sip on a lemonade without announcing it.

But I shall curtail this incendiary meandering, on the basis that one of the lengthiest and most furious correspondences I have ever been party to was instigated by a reader who objected to my description of gymnastics as child abuse with points.

"I said when I was 65 I would start curtailing my play and I have been doing that.

All those things are curtailed, I can say.

While I accept their personal and philosophical belief that the sale of firearms at a public facility is something that should be curtailed, I am not willing to accept the cost associated with failing to abide by contractual obligations.

Lawsuits by environmental groups and park users still challenge some grazing leases and result in reduced or curtailed grazing (i.e., Los Padres Forest Watch et al. vs. California Department of Fish & Game 2010).