Prune

//pɹuːn//

"Prune" in a Sentence (20 examples)

I cannot prune this tree. It's too high.

I can't prune this tree. It's too tall.

Why did the tomato go out with a prune? Because it couldn't find a date.

Tom and Mary had to prune their household budget when Tom was retrenched from work.

It's important to prune roses at least twice a year, to maintain healthy plants and maximise the number and quality of flowers.

Your vagina is not going to shrivel up like a prune.

You need to prune the roses.

I can play well on the pipe, I can prune vines, I can dig, I can plant, I can plough, and I can winnow.

Tell Tom that I'll prune his trees for him.

Tell Tom that I'll prune the trees.

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We are not free when we are in the grip of the false conditioning that decrees that we need sex. We are not free if we believe the culture's ominous warnings that we will become "horny" (what a callous, offensive word) and frustrated and neurotic and finally shrivel up into prunes and have to abandon hope of being good, creative, effective people.

I hardly left that spot in my pool that month even when my fingers pruned and chlorine dried out my skin.

A good grape grower will prune the vines once a year.

But poore old man, thou prun'ſt a rotten tree, / That cannot ſo much as a bloſſome yeelde

Our delightful task / To prune these growing plants, and tend these flowers.

to prune a budget, or an essay

taking into consideration how they [laws] are to be pruned and reformed

When internal dissension and a decline in popularity set in, Johnny was pruned from the Crests.

She gins her feathers fowle disfigured Prowdly to prune, and sett on every side.

For 'tis observed of every scribbling man, / He grows a fop as fast as e'er he can; / Prunes up, and asks his oracle, the glass, / If pink or purple best become his face.

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