TRIM in a Sentence

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77 example sentences for TRIM, such as:

1. The military budget will trim a lot next year.
2. I want a plain black jumper with no fancy trimmings.
3. If the lamp smokes or smells I shall try to trim it.
4. Ask the meatman to trim away the fat edges of the meat.
5. Using the straight edge as a guide, trim the cloth to size.

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 Meanings and Examples of TRIM
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
trim
 v.  clip; cut down to the desired size or shape
Classic Sentence: (68 in 5 pages)
1  To Gerty Farish's hopeful spirit a solution appeared to have been reached when she remembered how beautifully Lily could trim hats.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: Chapter 10
2  A snake of his size, in fighting trim, would be more than any boy could handle.
My Antonia By Willa Cather
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1. The Shimerdas: VII
3  The lines of her body were long, clean and symmetrical; it was a body which occasionally fell into splendid poses; there was no suggestion of the trim, stereotyped fashion-plate about it.
The Awakening By Kate Chopin
Context  Highlight   In VII
4  I'll have Tonie come over and help me patch and trim my boat.
The Awakening By Kate Chopin
Context  Highlight   In XII
5  This was a fearful experience, with filth and bad food and cruelty and overwork; but Jurgis stood it and came out in fine trim, and with eighty rubles sewed up in his coat.
The Jungle By Upton Sinclair
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 2
6  There were men to scrape each side and men to scrape the back; there were men to clean the carcass inside, to trim it and wash it.
The Jungle By Upton Sinclair
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 3
7  She was in another canning factory, and her work was to trim the meat of those diseased cattle that Jurgis had been told about not long before.
The Jungle By Upton Sinclair
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 10
8  A top hat, well brushed and trim, was placed upon the floor beside him.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In PART I: CHAPTER III. THE LAURISTON GARDEN MYSTERY
9  Among the latter was the Prior of Jorvaulx, in the most gallant trim which a dignitary of the church could venture to exhibit.
Ivanhoe By Walter Scott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VII
10  But there he was again, in his shirt-sleeves, stooping, letting the hens out of the coops, among the chicks that were now growing a little gawky, but were much more trim than hen-chickens.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H Lawrence
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 12
11  One of the largest stalls bore the name of Breckinridge upon it, and the proprietor a horsey-looking man, with a sharp face and trim side-whiskers was helping a boy to put up the shutters.
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In VII. THE ADVENTURE OF THE BLUE CARBUNCLE
12  The trim Inspector Martin, the old, gray-headed country doctor, myself, and a stolid village policeman made up the rest of that strange company.
The Return of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In III. THE ADVENTURE OF THE DANCING MEN
13  But no vision of trim front gardens or of kindly lights in the windows poured a tender influence upon him now.
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man By James Joyce
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 2
14  If the lamp smokes or smells I shall try to trim it.
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man By James Joyce
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 5
15  Godalming is an amateur fitter himself, and evidently it was he who put the launch in trim again.
Dracula By Bram Stoker
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXVI
Example Sentence:
1  Ask the meatman to trim away the fat edges of the meat.
2  The military budget will trim a lot next year.
3  I was always a trim, well-built guy until I turned forty.
4  Using the straight edge as a guide, trim the cloth to size.
5  A compact man with a trim moustache, Rouse builds high-end spec houses by day and high-flying rockets at night.
6  It's part of a restructuring programme intended to trim operating costs by a billion dollars.
7  Modern architecture has discarded the flamboyant trimming on buildings and emphasizes simplicity of line.
8  I want a plain black jumper with no fancy trimmings.
9  Hope you enjoy the happiness of Christmas and all the trimmings.