Sentence example with the word 'retrench'

retrench

abate, compress, cut back, derogate, extract, hold up, mow, recapitulate, shear, synopsize, withdraw

Last update: August 18, 2015


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Management has retrenched the expences by removing half of the workers.   [verb]

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He did not like to depend on statesmen's promises, which are proverbially uncertain of fulfilment; he as little liked to retrench; and he was wearied of parliament, where he had never given any but silent votes.   [verb]

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Yet there are circumstances recorded in them which the author has not been able to persuade himself to retrench or cancel.   [verb]

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He did not like to depend on statesmen's promises, which are proverbially uncertain of fulfilment; he as little liked to retrench; and he was wearied of parliament, where he had never given any but silent votes.   [Please select]

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But the Commons made them ashamed of it, and retrenched it.   [Please select]

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Did she mean that they must move into a smaller house, and retrench generally.   [Please select]

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We ought to retrench, and not let the city council spend another cent.   [Please select]

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I'll retrench without being mean, and I'll economize without being stingy.   [Please select]

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He did not abolish parliament, or retrench its privileges.   [Please select]

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