trim

[trɪm]

Definition:
1. Remove the edges from and cut down to the desired size.
2. Decorate, as with ornaments.
3. Cut down on; make a reduction in.

Use 'trim' in a sentence:

1. Trim off the excess pastry using a sharp knife.
2. His body is honed and kept in trim with constant exercise.
3. Trim rough edges with a sharp knife.
4. Don't trim the marketing budget.
5. Only if non-OPEC nations, including Norway, Mexico, and Russia, were to trim output by a total of 500,000 barrels a day.
6. Are your eyebrows trim and neat?
7. Care must be taken when trimming around woody plants like shrubs and trees.
8. Trim toenails straight across using nail clippers.
9. We should trim off the unnecessary parts of our spending.
10. She has kept very trim.
11. Smaller sails are lighter, easier to hoist and trim, and smaller to stow.
12. Jordan promised to trim the city budget without cutting essential services.
13. Just trim the sides.
14. We scheduled it and we get it and my dad and my sister would help trim the Christmas tree.
15. They learned how to trim almost 20 percent off their monthly child care bills during the 30-day "Frugal Family Challenge".
16. Neatly trim away old flowers on shrubs.
17. They have been looking to trust companies in particular to trim their balance sheets and lessen their regulatory burden.
18. See, trim lines, blue and gold, and it has elements on it.
19. Using the diet he's trimmed down from 90 kilos to 70.
20. That summer she had shed the weight gained during pregnancy, her body was trim and taut.
21. The saddles feature a reflective trim for night time visibility.
22. It should have prevented rain water warping the door trim.
23. The neighbors' gardens were trim and neat.
24. Officials declined to borrow against next year's state aid, they refused to trim extracurricular activities and they did not consider seeking a smaller—perhaps more acceptable—tax increase.
25. Butchers recommend cooking meat with the fat and trimming it away later.
26. A: OK. Do you want me to trim your moustache?
27. We trimmed the marketing department.
28. The driver was a trim young woman of perhaps thirty.
29. It is an excellent way of keeping my voice in trim.
30. The training budget had been trimmed by £ 10 000.
31. He is already getting in trim for the big day.
32. His hair needed a trim.
33. Thanks to its ongoing stimulus spending, which it is not proposing to trim, Germany's underlying budget deficit is forecast to rise this year.
34. The man went home, and saw his wife standing at the door of a nice trim little cottage.
35. But skeptics worry that costs may be trimmed at the expense of the patient.
36. He was tall, trim-built, muscular.
37. Cut down and trim trees for sale and transport.
38. She finally found the perfect gown, a beautiful creation trimmed with lace.
39. The hedge needs a trim.
40. Trim the shrubs with shears.
41. American companies looked at ways they could trim these costs.
42. Please trim my eyebrows and darken them.
43. Grass shears are specially made to trim grass growing in awkward places.
44. I trimmed two centimetres off the hem of the skirt.
45. Using the straight edge as a guide, trim the cloth to size.
46. My friend trims my hair every eight weeks.
47. The car is available with black or red trim.
48. The team need to get in trim for the coming season.
49. He keeps in trim by running every day.
50. It expels gas to descend, and expels water from trim bladders to rise.
51. Mishka got some nail scissors and started carefully trimming his fingernails.
52. Hair that's thick and luxuriant needs regular trimming.