Example Sentences

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“Now I am reducing the detergent amount to less than line 1,” he says.

From BusinessWeek • Oct. 23, 2014

You want to be with your sister," he said, suddenly interpreting my thoughts, "and I am reducing my cook to despair.

From Esther : a book for girls by Carey, Rosa Nouchette

I have altered our course as much as I dared and am reducing speed at emergency rate, but this is the largest swarm of meteorites I have ever seen.

From Astounding Stories, April, 1931 by Various