Sentence examples for it weeding from inspiring English sources

When I finished The Magician's Land I went through it weeding out the following words, all of which I use about five times as much as I should: finally, actually, probably, seems, felt, little, bit, some, somehow, huge, realized, truly, really, fuck, shit.

Librarians call it "weeding," and the choice of words is important: a library that "hemorrhages" books loses its lifeblood; a librarian who "weeds" is helping the collection thrive.

But the site's chaos, intentional or not, serves a purpose: it weeds out the dilettantes.

"It weeds out the guys who aren't hitting the ball that well".

Anastasia insists that it weeds out scams whenever it finds them, and has banned some women from the site.

Scammers deliberately use terrible spelling and implausible stories because it weeds out "false positives", according to research from Microsoft.

If someone really wants to get hold of me, they will, and it weeds out the casual approach.

"How many more of these can we have?" Some see the dearth of expansion capital as a good thing, since it weeds out weaker, less viable companies.

But Jo Silvester, an organisational psychologist who helped the party draw up the tests, counters that it weeds out substandard candidates, including ones with desirable backgrounds.

It weeded out those self-regarding academics whose great monograph always seemed to be just out of touch at the end of the rainbow.

It weeded out the weaker competition.