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How to use curtail in a sentence

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I do all the time, but of course I don't limit or otherwise curtail this self-indulgence.
The food industry is under intense pressure to curtail its marketing in the face of rising levels of childhood obesity.
One of the reasons for the restructuring is to curtail tax evasion by high earners.
The sooner they are rooted out and dealt with the sooner we may be able to curtail what is now a worrying trend.
In a society with no laws, then a mafia that extorts me restricts my freedom and any systematic attempt to curtail them becomes a de facto law.
I think it is a pity that they did not get an opportunity to curtail the hours and restrict the use of the main auditorium.
The Magna Carta does not, as I understand it, curtail the sovereignty of the proper lawmaker to make what laws seem fit to him.
Send yearlings to the feedlot early and curtail replacement heifer production for a year.
One is that the restrictions of movement in rural areas could curtail normal campaigning.
They are pushing for a draft amendment to the code of criminal procedure that would curtail prosecutorial powers.
I added that I could also envision a scenario in which the government might ask us to curtail our movements for a given period of time.
He is prepared to agree only if a constitutional amendment to curtail the powers of the future president is agreed to at the same time.
I did say it would curtail my daytime internet surfing, adopting the air of a martyr to the communal good.
The US central bank is trying to curtail inflationary pressures without obstructing economic growth.
The administration is counting on the media to exercise self-censorship and curtail reports of US atrocities that are seen as inevitable.
Our current impression is that haematin does curtail the clinical attack, and we frequently employ it.
He said the cuts were needed to curtail the previous Government's economic mismanagement and keep the State's triple-A credit rating intact.
We need a government who can control the law and order and curtail violation of human rights.
They aimed to curtail the aggressive territorial expansion and monopolization of the trade routes of the Adriatic Sea.
This in turn raises the risk of bank bankruptcies and therefore causes banks to curtail the expansion of credit.
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Examples from Classical Literature
We have lost five days here, and I shall be compelled to curtail my journey.
I would not wish for a moment to curtail the holy rights of wimmen.
To curtail the activities in one is not necessarily a favor to the other.
And you will forgive me, I am sure, if I curtail our interview.
I have no wish, even if I had the right, to curtail your freedom.
To condense, to curtail, to summarise life, is the purpose of art.
Well, sir, let us do what we can to curtail this visit, which can hardly be agreeable to you, and is inexpressibly irksome to me.
I have had news tonight over the telephone and I find that I must curtail my visit.
To me it would seem a deplorable thing that we should in any way curtail by so much as a minute so wonderful an experience.
Like a wise commander, who finds he has occupied too much ground for the amount of his force, he began to curtail his outworks.
Now, whenever I hear any one advocating measures that are meant to curtail the development of another, I pity the individual who would do this.
I fear I shall have to curtail his restorative exercise in the fresh air.
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