Sentence examples for to pruning from inspiring English sources
verb
To remove excess material from a tree or shrub; to trim, especially to make more healthy or productive.
- A good grape grower will prune the vines once a year.
There's more to pruning now than meets the eye.
It's a great little street, too, with a shop selling everything sharp from hairdresser's scissors to pruning knives, always crowded.
(Just avoid going during a harvest, because the winemaker often does everything from giving tours to pruning the vines).
But one wishes that an editor had taken to pruning some of the denser thickets as eagerly as Greer took to pruning the introduced plants that choked the native ones.
We learned that they responded to pruning like any other plant, and they liked a little native fertilizer every so often.
He had a housekeeper past 40, a niece not yet 20, and a man-of-all-work who did everything from saddling the horse to pruning the trees.
You have to be willing to prune".
"You've got to prune," advised another.
I am planning to prune it soon.
That effort tends to prune extraneous spending.
