(1) Inflation has whittled away their savings.

(2) Inflation has been whittling away their savings.

(3) Congress is whittling away at our freedom of speech.

(4) Inflation has steadily whittled away their savings.

(5) Our lead was being gradually whittled away.

(6) The museum is worried that government funding will be whittled away.

(7) Their approach is to whittle away at the evidence to show reasonable doubt.

(8) A series of new laws has gradually whittled away at the powers of the trade unions in this country.

(9) Congress is whittling away at our civil liberties.

(10) One Sunday he was whittling away when he was reminded by a page that it was the Sabbath.

(11) They are behind federal agencies in other parts of the country and overseas in whittling away at piles of backlogged work.

(12) Visitors can even whittle away time at the airport's 143 shops and 23 eateries while awaiting flights.

(13) The village was, as she had thought, a dump, where time was whittled away in some vintage manner.

(14) Under government ownership, the grazing land was gradually whittled away by privately owned farms.

(15) And scurvy all the while whittled away at the crew, killing six to ten men every day.

(16) While waiting he brought out a penknife and began whittling away a table-top.

(17) Ever since Donald had taken over the management of the company, Robert's role had been gradually whittled away.

(18) Inflation has been whittling away the value of state pensions for the last fifteen years.

(19) Grass road verges have almost vanished, whittled away by the volume of traffic and the inexorable weight of tractor wheels.

(20) This uses a succession of cues to whittle away the alternatives until only one remains.

(21) The recent election results have whittle away the government's power.

(22) Do you constantly whittle away at a problem , trying to find a solution?

(23) He began to whittle away all powers of the government that he did not control.

(24) I believe that the Government's general aim is to whittle away the Welfare State.

(25) Make this plug smaller for me, but do not whittle away too much wood.

(1) I believe that the Government's general aim is to whittle away the Welfare State.