Sentence examples for was soon reduced from inspiring English sources

After clashing with the Amateur Athletic Union, Owens was soon reduced to racing against horses to make a buck.

His imprisonment during the general strike was a miscarriage of justice; the nine-month sentence was soon reduced to a few weeks because of public outrage.

As she approached her 80s she became tottery, broke her hip as a result of a bad fall, and was soon reduced to immobility and incontinence.

The feeling was not necessarily mutual, though; Benny Goodman once made the mistake of high-hatting him at the start of a joint concert tour and was soon reduced to feigning a heart attack to escape the trumpeter's wrath.

In the winter of 2008 I went down with flu, and was soon reduced to such a state of inertia that I no longer reached for the glass of water beside my bed which I knew I ought to be drinking, nor could I summon up the energy to telephone anyone.

For some reason, Mertz suffered the worst and the one-time Olympic skier was soon reduced to a demented sliver of his former self.

Mr. Nishinaka's work of art is soon reduced to nothing, collapsing in an inferno.

But that's what happened, and they were soon reduced to begging for subsidies on national-security grounds.

But she is soon reduced to screeching like a panto villainess in that all-purpose Bardspeak accent.

Irish, though, were soon reduced to 14 men again when their hooker, David Paice, was shown a yellow card and this time Catterick kicked the penalty.

As for the food, that's soon reduced to The Last Sandwich (which is slightly glowing, but comes in very handy).