whittles

present tense third-person singular of whittle

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of Synonyms for whittles
Verb
  • Abuse cuts across religion, race, and class.
    Ed Gaskin, Boston Herald, 19 Oct. 2025
  • The camera lingers over the $20 bill Maggie has left, and the film cuts to black.
    Barry Levitt, Time, 17 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • The carry handles each have a magnetic piece that then clips together to form a single bar to grasp.
    Adam Campbell-Schmitt, Bon Appetit Magazine, 18 Sep. 2025
  • For messing up, Martha clips Gabriel’s wings, forcing him to live life as a human, with a new casual wardrobe to match and a taste for fast food.
    Michael Rechtshaffen, HollywoodReporter, 7 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • At the press of a button, the U-Hawk automatically opens its doors and lowers its ramp for loading.
    Kapil Kajal, Interesting Engineering, 14 Oct. 2025
  • Borve The kind of home that lowers your blood pressure, this cottage for two sits close to the shoreline within the Scottish Highlands, away from the bustle of the cities.
    Nicole Kliest, Vogue, 12 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • Marvel Avengers Expansion Impressions The biggest strength of the Marvel Multiverse Role Playing Game expansions continues to be succinct writing that pares down decades of comic book history into a short but informative chapter.
    Rob Wieland, Forbes.com, 17 Sep. 2025
  • This is a sweet, redemptive film that pares back some of the more extreme dramatic elements of Perry’s earlier work to tell a straightforward, second-chance-at-love story.
    Declan Gallagher, Entertainment Weekly, 14 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • Everything — from the app that pings the cookie drops to the branding strategy that weaponizes nostalgia and novelty — emanates from this Provo facility.
    Seth Abramovitch, HollywoodReporter, 17 Oct. 2025
  • When participation drops among people of color and young people, our electorate becomes less representative—and our government does too.
    Tom Lopach, Time, 17 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • Where To Stay in Martin County With a strict ban on buildings over four stories, the Treasure Coast curtails the kind of over development that can choke out some Florida beach towns.
    Kelsey Glennon, Southern Living, 3 Oct. 2025
  • That curtails with previous reporting from Fortune showing how high housing costs and other life expenses have forced Gen Z and millennials to delay the American Dream.
    Sydney Lake, Fortune, 24 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • Whether arriving early shortens my wait depends on when others choose to arrive, and if all tourists follow the same internet advice and arrive an hour early, the lines at opening may be the longest of the day.
    Big Think, Big Think, 14 Oct. 2025
  • Beyond nutrition, the EUSD Farm to School program also reduces packaging waste, shortens food miles and donates surplus produce to local food banks and community resource centers.
    News Release, San Diego Union-Tribune, 13 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • Kombucha is a fermented tea that contains some sugar, but fermentation reduces how much your body actually absorbs.
    Sarah Garone, Health, 18 Oct. 2025
  • People who were gestating during the famine grew up to have smaller brains; their kidneys had fewer nephrons, which reduces the organs’ effectiveness.
    Clayton Dalton, New Yorker, 18 Oct. 2025
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“Whittles.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/whittles. Accessed 21 Oct. 2025.

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