1. Don't whittle the stick into a short one.

2. We need to whittle down the list of guests for the party.

3. The president has agreed to whittle down his proposal.

4. Their approach is to whittle away at the evidence to show reasonable doubt.

5. I finally managed to whittle down the names on the list to only five.

6. Whittle struck back at critics of his educational policies.

7. Red and Roy whittle the lead back down to nine.

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

9. Jog a few miles before breakfast, whittle off the campaign flab.

10. Here, Brian Whittle, in his first major championships, awaited Kriss Akabussi.

11. You can rely on these keen-eyed bowmen to whittle down the enemy's numbers as they advance.

12. Whittle showed me what exists between the course and Gullane Bay.

13. He felt the urge to whittle on it with a knife, but no urge to speak.

14. Channel One was introduced by Whittle Communications to a pilot group of junior and senior high schools in 1989.

15. This is good because it allows you to whittle down those superior numbers.

16. Whittle ignored the query on the farm's actual location.

17. Sarah Whittle: Don't ever call me crazy, Alan!

18. Sarah Whittle: A lowercase fall never perceive anybody!

19. They won't whittle down your salaries.

20. They are trying to whittle down our salaries.

21. Other ways to whittle down banks are thinkable.

22. Eliminate the filler, and whittle down your notes from every class or reading into a specific portion- a page, or 1/2 a page.

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

24. The man with the kidney lips folded his knife and stood up and brushed the whittle shavings out of his lap.

25. This war is a bid by the Tigrayan nationalists to whittle down their northern neighbour.

26. People inevitably are changed by their contact with a global network of humanity, Whittle says.

27. Many of the recent suggestions for change have sought to whittle down that authority.

28. McKinty hacked through a loose ball to set up a line out just inside the Collegians half which skipper Don Whittle won.

29. Their resistance and boycott threat might instead be more of an effort to whittle down the markup that Rio Tinto is seeking in current contract negotiations.

30. But if you looked at them and said, "I want to reach the top five in online music, " you can whittle down the list.

1. Don't whittle the stick into a short one.

2. We need to whittle down the list of guests for the party.

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

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, 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.