Sentence examples for slashed back from inspiring English sources
"slashed back" is a correct and usable phrase in written English
It is used to mean a significant cut or reduction in something, usually an amount of money. For example, you could say "The company slashed back on employee benefits due to budget cuts."
Mr. McGreevey slashed back: "It's not what you tell us tonight, Bret.
Sky-high interest rates could be slashed back then, but this time they're already on the floor.
Councils have reduced salary costs by £3.1bn, slashed back office costs and developed new and innovative ways of working.
The UK government has slashed back legal aid spending on civil cases by £350m since then; the savings are due to come into effect next year.
The line would then have to bow out to the west, in a parabola that scooped Bristol and New Britain into Red Soxica, and then slashed back toward Hartford.
He uncovered appalling scandal and waste and slashed back grossly inflated budgets – reducing the cost of the Vatican's life-size Christmas crib from €550,000 to €300,000; and saving €850,000 in the maintenance of the gardens, money which he funnelled into renovating the Pope's central heating system.
We are constantly being told by a chorus of conservatives that the financial crisis caused by their market fundamentalism can only be solved by slashing back spending.
To appease such sentiment, the military has cut back on co-operation with the US, sending home dozens of military trainers and slashing back some programmes.
Home builders have been frantically slashing back on their production in the face of the worst slump in housing in more than two decades.
Too often the Conservative narrative has implied a desire to simply slash back the state for ideological purposes, an impression exaggerated by the tussles of coalition government.
Mr Osborne's fiscal hawkishness is an ideology like any other, of course, but the charge that he and the Tories are ideological axe-men relishing the chance to slash back the state does not ring true.
