Sentence examples for whittled from inspiring English sources

Bat is now dominating where ball once did, and Sussex have whittled 120 off their 330-run requirement following a wicketless afternoon.

Now that's been whittled down by public vote to a final round of 10 birds".

The articles were whittled down from an original 2,412 on the basis of the strength of the studies.

In the meantime, Zimbabwe's economy continues to tumble, with growth expectations for 2015 being whittled down to between 1-2% by critics while the finance minister, Patrick Chinamasa, expects the economy to grow at 3.4% for the same period.

Saharawi sources said the number had been whittled down to around 85,000.

Ten final candidates have been whittled down from a list of 60.

There they were put through a series of observational, physical and mental challenges such as code-breaking and having to keep information secret during an interrogating interview, before being whittled down to the final three.

The committee selected Mansfield from a shortlist of six who were all given four months to write submissions of 10,000 to 20,000 words after they were whittled down from 149 entrants who submitted proposals of no more than 2,000 words.

Since the banking collapse, what purports to be a serious debate over the future of the economy has been whittled down to little more than a ping-pong match: cuts v no cuts.

The top 10 – already whittled down from a longlist of 60 by more than 70,000 members of the public – includes all the usual suspects: wren, blue tit, blackbird and the hot favourite, the robin.

Whitehall belt-tightening means that has now been whittled down to about 5%.