Sample Sentences forcurtail (auto-selected)
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Saeed and Nadia began to curtail their wanderings to conserve energy, and thus reduce their need for food and drink.† (source)
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My mother's decision to curtail her education was more acceptable to her parents than to her sister; Aunt Martha not only disapproved— my aunt (who is a lovely woman) resented my mother, if only slightly.† (source)
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They called her a "strong voice in an urban wilderness" and "a radiant beacon, shedding light on the need to curtail continued overdevelopment of our once quaint and tranquil community."† (source)
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"Sir, I do not wish to act against you," I said; and my unsteady voice warned me to curtail my sentence.† (source)
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It is nothing, child, I tell you ...nothing ...I must be alone a minute—and—dear one ...I may have to curtail our time together to-day....I may have to go away—you'll understand?† (source)
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It was Will's accident that had curtailed our plans for a life together, after all.† (source)
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Even the air systems had been curtailed.† (source)
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The public may curtail my profits any time it wishes-by refusing to buy my product.† (source)
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If food had been distributed fairly...if people hadn't panicked...if we'd had good leaders being honest about the need for everyone's cooperation...we could have survived the crisis without curtailing anyone's rights.† (source)
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He felt much healthier in the war, probably due to the forced curtailment of the number of meat courses, he had an enormous stock of sodium-bicarbonate, he had his whiskey in the evening, his twenty-three-year-old mistress was having a baby, as were nearly all the other girls who had started out as milicianas in the July of the year before, and now he came into the room, nodded in answer to Gomez's salute and put out his hand.† (source)
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I, that am curtail'd of this fair proportion, Cheated of feature by dissembling nature, Deform'd, unfinish'd, sent before my time Into this breathing world scarce half made up, And that so lamely and unfashionable That dogs bark at me as I halt by them;† (source)
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Only Florida and Alabama allowed the jury's decision to be overridden by a judge—and Florida later put restrictions on the practice that severely curtailed it.† (source)
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Enrique says that were he an American citizen, he would want to curtail illegal immigration.† (source)
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But in nearly four hours of increasingly bitter debate, there was no direct answer to the blunt question posed by Mr. Maclnnis: If the national security is no longer in danger, what is the reason for curtailing the freedom of Canadian citizens?† (source)
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Probably, therefore, he will say something like this: While freely conceding that the Soviet régime exhibits certain features which the humanitarian may be inclined to deplore, we must, I think, agree that a certain curtailment of the right to political opposition is an unavoidable concomitant of transitional periods, and that the rigors which the Russian people have been called upon to undergo have been amply justified in the sphere of concrete achievement.† (source)
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They were conducting a 'strategic withdrawal' from all fronts, an operation represented in the press as the surrender of unimportant areas so that the front line could be curtailed to German advantage.† (source)
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