"away" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- The thing must be all but whittled away by now.
- He had whittled away at her until she'd given him more.
- The lower part of the door had been whittled away and broken out.
- And well-known forces continue to whittle away at the workers' share.
- Here the game is to whittle away at the edges.
- The words strengthened him at a time when he felt whittled away to nothing.
- They were being whittled away and in a few more moments the host would be upon them.
- Little comments, even body language, that'd whittle away at your spirit.
- By the late 1980's, the court had whittled away at this crucial protection.
- But there is evidence that hard times in the last few years have whittled away at arts classes across the country.
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