Sentence examples for he pruned from inspiring English sources

He pruned an array of phrases near the top.

(Rock is here to stay, I hope. This was the second winter he pruned the grapevines).

Once the boys could scamper, he pruned the branches so they could climb up and build their own treehouse.

And President Reagan did love to prune speech drafts and proclamations with his sharp pen, just as he pruned the live oaks and madronas at Rancho del Cielo.

He did this despite advice from three arborists that the trees were perfectly safe as long as he pruned them regularly.

As his sweat dried, he pruned the bonsai tree he kept in a special compartment in one of the bedroom windows.

He prunes his wife's in-box and often discusses possible posts with her.

He prunes the garden and, nearly every day, he drives a mile to my grandmother's house to have lunch.

He prunes each one to a main branch, or oblique cordon, bent at a 45-degree angle.

Following the lead of Mamet and Albee, he prunes his dialogue to one- and two-word sentences (pronouns are the first to go) and builds deceptively complex exchanges out of short, punchy scenes.

He explained how he grows Pippins with concentrated flavor through painstaking artisanal practices: He farms standard-size trees on seedling rootstock, which thrive without irrigation; he prunes hard and thins heavily, so that the fruits are few but large and well-nourished.