Sentence examples for hack it back from inspiring English sources

It grew so luxuriantly that now we have to hack it back".

Over-burdened bramble systems won't put on as much fruit in the same amount of space as a tamed and well-pruned plant.The plant will come back just as aggressively, if not more so next year, so feel free to really hack it back.

But Senior hacked it back and it went straight into the hands of Ali Lauiti'iti.

The bill is less than it was in 2003-04; the previous, Labour, government hacked it back repeatedly.

Her chancellor, Nigel Lawson, hacked it back again to 40% in his first post-election budget in 1988, fuelling boom and bust in the process.

His hopes came to a sorry end on the 6th when he hit his ball into a bunker, hacked up backwards into the rough, then hacked it back into the same bunker.

Mr Stroud and his colleagues spend a fair bit of time hacking it back and poisoning the stumps and through them, they hope, the prodigiously deep roots in order to preserve the lifeless volcanic splendour of at least some parts of the island.

Perhaps the Conservatives were helped by David Cameron's swift condemnation of culprits in his party last year, despite his own embarrassing claim for removing wisteria (and no, he was not hacking it back even further when his spokesperson boasted of the Tory leader chopping wood on election day; it sparkled in the lights of television vans on Thursday night).

As I took leave of her domestic life-as-sculpture — conceding the inherent grace in bittersweet's whorled forms — I grumped that I was sure to find more of the lovely demon drifting, spectral but vigorous, where we had hacked it back last season.

I have been called a "cunt," an epithet so hack it slides off my back.

The Chinese, he might explain, hacked this from you—and we hacked them to get it back.