REDUCE in a Sentence

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264 example sentences for REDUCE, such as:
1. We'll need to reduce the weight by half.
2. The governor announced a new plan to reduce crime.
3. They aim to reduce unit costs through extra sales.
4. Better street lighting might help to reduce crime.
5. Today police launched a campaign to reduce road accidents.
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Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
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 Meanings and Examples of REDUCE
reduce
 v.  be the essential element
 v.  reduce in scope while retaining essential elements
Classic Sentence: (91 in 7 pages)
1  He did not give any reason for having changed his mind, but merely warned the animals that this extra task would mean very hard work, it might even be necessary to reduce their rations.
Animal Farm By George Orwell
Context  Highlight   In Chapter V
2  At his feet was placed a table, occupied by two scribes, chaplains of the Order, whose duty it was to reduce to formal record the proceedings of the day.
Ivanhoe By Walter Scott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXVII
3  It is, if I may take an eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth; for every wrench of agony return a wrench: reduce him to my level.
Wuthering Heights By Emily Bronte
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XVII
4  She tried to reduce the frequency of begging by opening accounts and having the bills sent to him.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VI
5  The foolhardiness or ignorance of her officers was a prolific theme for comment whilst she remained in sight, and efforts were made to signal her to reduce sail in face of her danger.
Dracula By Bram Stoker
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VII
6  It needs no critical exertion to reduce utterly to dust any deductions drawn from history.
War and Peace 4 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 11: CHAPTER I
7  For towns strongly fortified are not attacked by escalade, nor will the assailing army advance against them in weak numbers; but will endeavour, as in ancient times, to reduce them by regular siege.
Discourses on the First Decade of Titus Livius By Niccolo Machiavelli
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER XVII.
8  Maybelle Merriwether went toward the next booth on the arm of the Zouave, in an apple- green tarlatan so wide that it reduced her waist to nothingness.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER IX
9  This medical frankness reduced the ladies to embarrassed blushes and silence.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XVIII
10  This suggestion met with the complete approval of Prissy, who was now reduced to teeth- chattering idiocy at every unexpected sound.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XIX
11  It was the final degradation for her to think of Ashley reduced to the state of these other soldiers.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXX
12  She knew she should believe devoutly, as they did, that a born lady remained a lady, even if reduced to poverty, but she could not make herself believe it now.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXV
13  Ashamed that she was poor and reduced to galling shifts and penury and work that negroes should do.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXV
14  Scarlett raged at both Frank and Mammy, then was reduced to begging and finally cried all one morning like a furious thwarted child.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLII
15  His own taste was in the line of less solid and more highly-seasoned diet; but hunger makes any fare palatable, and there had been times when Mr. Stepney had been reduced to a crust.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 4
Example Sentence: (173 in 12 pages)
1  The new administration are on the prowl for ways to reduce spending.
2  Helping to alleviate poverty in developing countries also helps to reduce environmental destruction.
3  The government has pledged to reduce the amount of chemicals used in food production.
4  Later this month, federal authorities are expected to announce plans to reduce their supplies of water to farmers by three-quarters.
5  If the Europeans did not reduce subsidies, a trade war would ensue.
6  The Government could take down the watchtowers in South Armagh with few consequences for security; it could also reduce troop numbers.
7  They aim to reduce unit costs through extra sales.
8  We'll need to reduce the weight by half.
9  I really believe that it is possible to both improve customer satisfaction and reduce costs.
10  Doctors tried desperately to reduce the swelling in her brain.
11  Today police launched a campaign to reduce road accidents.
12  The company is being forced to reduce staff and I fear I'm a likely candidate.
13  Immerse your foot in ice cold water to reduce the swelling.
14  Better street lighting might help to reduce crime.
15  The governor announced a new plan to reduce crime.