Crossword-Solution: CURTAILING 10 letters, 1 clue 🏆 scrabble score: 13

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Curtailing p. pr. & vb. n. of Curtail

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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
ETEAR
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greedy person
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Sentences with CURTAILING (5)

But there is a way some men have, rural and urban alike—for which the mind is more responsible than flesh and sinew—a way of curtailing their dimensions by their manner of showing them; and from a quiet modesty that would have become a vestal, which seemed continually to impress upon him that he had no great claim on the world’s room, Oak walked unassumingly, and with a faintly perceptible bend, quite distinct from a bowing of the shoulders.
Far from the Madding Crowd Thomas Hardy 1992
The remedy is NOT in the curtailing of our wheat areas, but in this, we MUST HAVE NEW MARKETS, GREATER MARKETS.
The Octopus Frank Norris 2008
She only became more wistfully affectionate than ever in her expressions, and looked as disappointed as I expected when I frankly told her that I could no longer enjoy the pleasure of what we called “seein' folks.” I felt that I was cruel to a whole neighborhood in curtailing her liberty in this most important season for harvesting the different wild herbs that were so much counted upon to ease their winter ails.
The Country of the Pointed Firs Sarah Orne Jewett 2008
Had the chairman but known it, he was curtailing a paper vastly more important than all the other papers of the meeting put together.
A History of Science, Volume 3(of 5) Henry Smith Williams 1999
Experience of life, instead of curtailing and checking my prayer, led me to reject experience altogether.
The Story of My Heart Richard Jefferies 1999

Quotes with CURTAILING (3)

... I, as an anarch, renouncing any bond, any limitation of freedom, also reject compulsory education as nonsense. It was one of the greatest well-springs of misfortune in the world. Compulsory schooling is essentially a means of curtailing natural strength and exploiting people. The same is true of military conscription, which developed within the same context. The anarch rejects both of them - just like obligatory vaccination and insurance of all kinds. He has reservations …
Ernst Junger Eumeswil
If the authorities under various false pretenses, continue curtailing the rights of citizens, so that they merely become serfs to a handful of multinational companies, a global rebellion of ordinary people against super capitalism is certainly not inconceivable.
A.J. Beirens Gesels van een imaginaire god
While eliminating smallpox and curtailing cholera added decades of life to vast populations, cures for the chronic diseases of old age cannot have the same effect on life expectancy. A cure for cancer would be miraculous and welcome, but it would lead to only a three-year increase in life expectancy at birth.
S. Jay Olshansky