Sentence examples for sense cut from inspiring English sources

So if you exercised a little sense, cut back on spending and only borrowed a little, then you have to pay it all back.

They're not just both dashing leading men when you look at them and hear them talk, you have to admit they're, in a sense, cut from the same hippie-philosopher cloth.

"No one who has any sense cuts cedar in the summer," Mattlage told me.

But beyond that, Buck's story seems right for the times: a decent man whose common sense cuts to the heart of the matter, an ordinary guy who's made an extraordinary life despite the odds.

Use your senses, cut your losses, and make up for it next time.

"A Senate vote to simply postpone the sequester, rather than replace it with common-sense cuts and reforms, is unworkable and unacceptable," Mr. Boehner lectured the Senate.

Speaker John A. Boehner on Tuesday called their proposals "common-sense cuts and reforms" that the president and his Democratic allies in the Senate could immediately accept.

"We hope the Senate is going to finally join us in these common-sense cuts to keep the government open and not continue to play chicken," said Representative Eric Cantor, the Virginia Republican and majority leader.

The Budget Committee debate on Monday followed a familiar script, with Democrats accusing Republicans of cruelty and Republicans saying "common-sense" cuts to duplicative programs would not lead to any real pain.

"Republicans have twice voted to replace these arbitrary cuts with common-sense cuts and reforms that protect our national defense.

More broadly, it seems crazy to me that the war on drugs has focused so much on cutting supply, when it makes a lot more sense to cut demand.