The best thing to do is to prune away and destroy all the infected twigs and branches, cutting about a foot or two below the injured area.

Allusions and incidents that evoked the milieu of Leonard's younger days, and the texture of his mind, have been pruned away.

And because false hypotheses have to be pruned away, much of the work is actually more destructive than constructive.

Many connections within the brain are strengthened and those that are unused are pruned away.

The lerchbush was a hardy creature and didn't react badly to having a few of its buds pruned away.

Katlinel stood up, fingers pressed to the golden lore at her throat, and pruned the ramage away with an invisible blade of psychoenergy.

Then, through a process of neural sculpting, the excess is pruned away.

But these pieces could have used the input of a crusty stage director not afraid to prune away and shape up the shows.

Any branches showing winter damage should be pruned away.

Any dead areas of these shrubs that do not appear to be coming back can be pruned away.