Sentence examples for prune him from inspiring English sources
When he battled George "The Orchid Man" Carpentier, however, the Manassa Mauler must initially have been wondering whether to prune him, weedkiller him, or go for the long-term strategy of leaving him on the windowsill and forgetting to repot him until he withered.
For example, a neighbor of the Antonios' son wanted to install a system on his house in Carroll Gardens, Brooklyn, but could not because the city would not let him prune the tall trees shading his roof.
He typed 800 pages before pressure from his publisher forced him to prune it and be finished.
His mother periodically forced him to prune his schedule and focus more on the church; in response, he cut himself off from her throughout much of his high-school career.
Bruce took his mother's ivory pruning knife with him to the gardens but it fell through a hole in his pocket on the way.
Literary scholar S. Foster Damon wrote that Chivers would have had a stronger reputation if he were born in the North and "the literary coteries there would surely have pruned and preserved him.
