Sentence examples for prune back the from inspiring English sources

"Sometimes you have to really prune back the tree in order to help it grow".

Following advice from a garden centre, I prune back the new growth each spring and tie the shrubs up to encourage it to grow upwards.

"The impulse to prune back the budgets," he said, was "code for 'let's stop paying attention to blacks, Hispanics, women.' " He continued to devote resources to training park rangers in how to teach visitors about the history and meaning of a place.

But where Fijians spear lots of herbivores such as bird-beaked parrotfish, few fish remain to prune back the region's seaweeds, a blanket term for many types of big algae.

With a breast-reconstruction technique called "end-to-side anastomosis," a surgeon connects the stump of the abdominal artery contained in the transplanted abdominal tissue to the side of the existing internal mammary artery, eliminating the need to prune back the mammary artery.

Prune back the side branches to one or two buds.

Sleep prunes back the grey matter so that, come the morning, the brain is once again economical to run.

It made Ronald Reagan's presidency possible, and Mr Schneider has argued since that it encouraged others, notably Newt Gingrich, to give history a shove in the right direction by pruning back the functions of the state still further.

Mr Putin has sought to downplay the concerns, but policymakers are discussing pruning back the list of spending commitments he made when he took back the presidency in 2012.

Putin has sought to downplay the concerns, but policymakers are discussing pruning back the list of spending commitments he made when he took back the presidency in 2012, such as expanded benefits for parents who have more children.

I pruned back the hemlock in March, trying to give the lilac more room, but it still looks crowded and is growing up and out in a narrow treelike fashion, rather than a rounded shape.