Sentence examples for as a prune from inspiring English sources

The hand-size print, resting in a simple plastic slipcover, is as wrinkled as a prune.

Sure, the baby probably looks as wrinkled as a prune, suggestive of old men and women, but that's not something the parents of a newborn want to hear.

They cite instances of premature deaths, as well as a pruning backlog, made worse by recent budget cuts.

Subsequently, to improve the efficiency of predictions of metamodeling, the principal component analysis (PCA) technique is used as a pruning tool to generate an optimal set of base models.

80percentt of the time, Jack chose unemployment and alcoholism over working, however in a rare display earlier that year he'd got a gig as a pruning contractor on a pine forestry block neighboring the Urewera National Park.

In principle, we can view image thinning as a pruning process.

There's a moment in that Indiana Jones movie, the first one I think, when Indy's big pal spits out a prune stone as they're strolling along – right into the face of a man coming in the opposite direction.

In 1999, she caused complaints when she described a clergyman as an "old prune" to his face and called her fellow DJ Ken Bruce an "old fool".

Near New Haven, one biologist has found foot-high cedars that turned out to be 12 years old but were as stunted as a carefully pruned bonsai.

Only in retrospect, when some future culture -- human or otherwise -- examines the fossil record, will the die-off be evident as a substantial pruning of the branches of the tree of life, he said.

As a consequence, pruning will bring the best results for small values of k.