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Definition of the day : « curtailing »

  • verb cut short; abridge
Example sentences :
  • Mahmoud was bent on depriving them of their wealth and curtailing their privileges.
  • Extract from : « The Continental Monthly, Vol 3 No 3, March 1863 » by Various
  • "Come in this way, madam," he added with grave dignity, but curtailing the bow.
  • Extract from : « Stubble » by George Looms
  • Julien's confessions had no effect in curtailing the interrogations.
  • Extract from : « The Red and the Black » by Stendhal
  • This curtailing of class hours was characteristic of the Society's system.
  • Extract from : « Loyola and the Educational System of the Jesuits » by Thomas Hughes
  • There has been talk of curtailing your liberty to some extent.
  • Extract from : « The Young Continentals at Bunker Hill » by John T. McIntyre
  • He apologises for curtailing a few lines from 2400 folio pages!
  • Extract from : « Calamities and Quarrels of Authors » by Isaac Disraeli
  • For some months before my sickness I had been curtailing my hours of sleep.
  • Extract from : « Forty Years in the Wilderness of Pills and Powders » by William A. Alcott
  • But it should be noted that this does not dispense with curtailing of consumption, and "abstinence."
  • Extract from : « The Value of Money » by Benjamin M. Anderson, Jr.
  • It merely shifts the necessity for curtailing consumption to some one else.
  • Extract from : « The Value of Money » by Benjamin M. Anderson, Jr.
  • But the curtailing of the chief sermon may easily be overdone.
  • Extract from : « The Priestly Vocation » by Bishop Bernard Ward