Sentence examples for has reduced us from inspiring English sources

This has reduced us to using the toaster oven or microwave exclusively and somewhat restricted our menus.

We authorised the consumer ethos which has reduced us from citizens to commodities.

Where the expansion of citizenship constructed an ethos of mutuality, commerce has reduced us to consumer commodities to be exploited and defrauded.

"This gas has reduced us to beggars," Amran Khan, a 45-year-old welder, said, as he lay in a bed in the Kamla Nehru Hospital.

We don't mean necessarily that he's created some hitherto unheard-of hybrid of extreme genres, but for some reason he has reduced us to silence when all we really want to do is tell you what he's like.

Our exhausted and frustrated soldiers are in a hideously difficult environment they're not familiar with, dealing with a culture America only dimly understands, where our desperation for any intelligence has reduced us to recruiting Saddam's old spies, whom we didn't trust in the first place, and where we're so strapped that soldiers may have to face back-to-back yearlong overseas tours.

"A few years ago, they had reduced us to a handful of streets in Aleppo," said a commander in one of the pro-government militias.

"You've reduced us to silence," she told another.

Is this what phishers and spammers have reduced us to looking for ways to hide in our own private Internet?

This is what unrestrained, immoral and disloyal multinational corporations have reduced us to: modern slavery.

The bombs, if they had come, would have reduced us to a powdery residue, or left us to die of radiation sickness.