Sentence examples for might try reducing from inspiring English sources

If newly planted trees and shrubs show signs of stress with the heat, I might try reducing the leaf surface by pruning off every other leaf.

You can leave it there, or you might try reducing the opacity of that layer, depending on what you want it to look like.

Given that your boyfriend thought alcohol could be a factor in his sleepwalking, he might want to try reducing alcohol consumption and see if it helps.

It might be hard to completely stop at once, so try reducing the amount each week.

Fourth, a conventional company might try to reduce costs across the board by going lean everywhere.

In many third-sector organisations, the board might try to reduce messiness by handpicking its new members based on who'll be a good fit.

Countries seeking to defeat it might try to reduce the boost-phase flight time, thereby narrowing the window of opportunity for a successful intercept.

That would involve negotiations with banks and bondholders in which Athens might try to reduce its obligations or push repayments further into the future.

Instead of trying to get back the money, he said, Detroit might try to reduce those people's future pension payments, to get back at least part of the overpayments.

But he said that the company might try to reduce the uncertainty by sealing off the tubes most likely to leak, or that it might go ahead with replacing the steam generators immediately, a step that would preclude operation for months.

One might try to reduce (2) to absurdity.