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"Whittle" in a Sentence (14 examples)
The new president wants to whittle down spending on health care to a bare minimum.
Frank Whittle, a British pilot, designed and patented the first turbo jet engine in 1930.
At the same time that Whittle was working in England, Hans von Ohain was working on a similar design in Germany. The first airplane to successfully use a gas turbine engine was the German Heinkel He 178, in August, 1939. It was the world's first turbojet powered flight.
As a general rule, one should not whittle sticks in the dark.
I still love to whittle.
I began to whittle away my savings on gifts for a lovely ample Muslim woman.
Scientists across the globe are scrambling to develop a vaccine that can beat back the COVID-19 virus, hoping to whittle a process that typically takes years down to months.
I'm struggling to whittle away pieces of my essay to make it conform to the maximum word count.
Novv if any man can be ſo unkind to his ovvn Body, for I meddle not vvith your Souls, as to ſtand ſtill like a good Chriſtian, and offer his VVeeſon to a Butcher's VVhittle, I ſay no more but that he may be ſav'd, and that's the beſt can come on him.
Rude whittles.
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The Sheffield whittle was the common knife of the country, which every one carried for general purposes, who was not entitled by rank to wear a sword.
He was sitting on a bench before the fire, with his feet on the stove hearth, and in one hand was holding close up to his face that little negro idol of his; peering hard into its face, and with a jack-knife gently whittling away at its nose, meanwhile humming to himself in his heathenish way.
When men are well whitled, their toungs run at randome
Her figure is tall , graceful , and slight ; the severity of its outlines suiting well with the severity of her dress , with the brown stuff gown , and plain gray whittle
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