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Sentence count:60+3Posted:2017-03-23Updated:2020-07-24
Synonym: Frank WhittleSir Frank WhittleWhittlepareSimilar words: little by littlelittlea littlebrittlebelittlenot a littlebeer and skittleswhitherMeaning: ['hwɪtl /'w-]  n. English aeronautical engineer who invented the jet aircraft engine (1907-1996). v. cut small bits or pare shavings from. 
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31. Your article is too long, try to whittle it away to half its length.
32. This uses a succession of cues to whittle away the alternatives until only one remains.
33. "We are actually seeing the sound waves," Whittle said. "There are little ones on top of bigger ones, all adding to give the appearance of random patchiness."
34. Challenged with a 100 million euro deficit, one western German city has introduced a day tax on prostitutes to help whittle down its budget gap.
35. A tougher market environment and higher industry standards would eventually whittle down the sector to just a handful of local companies, said YK Lee, analyst at Core Pacific-Yamaichi.
36. Sarah Whittle: You did just see three monkeys go by on a motorcycle; right?
37. With the hardware coming into its own as a portable gaming, social networking and all-round super device, this task may be extremely difficult to whittle down.
38. Although Germany had produced a jet fighter it was Frank Whittle of the R.A.F.who had invented the jet engine and patented it as early as 1930.
39. If you start with a thick shoe and slowly whittle down, at what point does the person start to run like they're barefoot?
40. The recent election results have whittle away the government's power.
41. Whittle, whose primary area of research relates to galaxy formation, presented his cosmic riff at a recent meeting of the American Astronomical Society in Denver.
42. Vague vows to whittle down wasteful spending have been effective until now.
43. He who trims himself to suit everyone will soon whittle himself away.
44. Sarah Whittle: They grow much faster than bamboo. Take care or they'll come after you.
45. China is also trying to whittle down iron-ore prices in talks with Rio and other suppliers.
46. From this(sentencedict.com), Whittle could turn the relative number and strength of waves of different sizes into the relative loudness of high and low pitch notes.
47. Nowak has been busy working on how to whittle down the emergence of life into the simplest possible chemical system that he can describe mathematically.
48. A girl named Maxi went off to whittle a branch with a hunting knife.
49. BERLIN (Reuters Life! ) – Challenged with a 100 million euro ($133 million) deficit, one western German city has introduced a day tax on prostitutes to help whittle down its budget gap.
50. Do you constantly whittle away at a problem , trying to find a solution?
51. The collapse of a braced excavation in Singapore, April 2004 Whittle.
52. "There is greater public interest in protecting private life -- and that interest must tolerate the occasional missed misdemeanour," said Whittle, a former BBC controller of editorial policy.
53. The Grim Reaper can cut life short and, under the right circumstances(Sentence dictionary), whittle those still standing down to the size of pygmies.
54. He began to whittle away all powers of the government that he did not control.
55. One of the central intellectual projects in The Constitution of Liberty is the Humean one to use reason to whittle down the claims of Reason.
56. Simon Sheppard, 51, of Selby in North Yorkshire, received four years and 10 months, and Stephen Whittle, 42, of Preston, two years and four months.
57. Make this plug smaller for me, but do not whittle away too much wood.
58. Earlier efforts by Mr. Gates to whittle down his partner's stake in Microsoft were successful though, according to Mr.
59. Whittle has also managed to tease out the fundamental (a physics term that describes a component of lowest frequency of a periodic wave) and harmonics of the big bang.
60. Profits are whittle down by the ever - rising cost of energy.
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