Explore Pruning through 10+ example sentences from English, with an explanation of the meaning and related words like cutting or trim. Ideal for language learners, writers and word enthusiasts.
Pruning meaning
- A removal of excess material from a tree or shrub.
- Something obtained by pruning, as a twig.
- A method of enumeration that allows the cutting out of parts of a decision tree.
Using Pruning
- The main meaning on this page is: A removal of excess material from a tree or shrub. | Something obtained by pruning, as a twig. | A method of enumeration that allows the cutting out of parts of a decision tree.
- Useful related words include: cutting, trim, trimming, clipping.
- In the example corpus, pruning often appears in combinations such as: pruning and, and pruning, of pruning.
Context around Pruning
- Average sentence length in these examples: 21.3 words
- Position in the sentence: 8 start, 7 middle, 5 end
- Sentence types: 20 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Pruning
- In this selection, "pruning" usually appears near the start of the sentence. The average example has 21.3 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, post, horticultural, victorinox, shears, seal and knife stand out and add context to how "pruning" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include a horticultural pruning seal as and actions in pruning the portfolio. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "pruning" sits close to words such as aol, arran and autoimmune, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with pruning
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
Nevertheless, Intel is taking real actions in pruning the portfolio. (10 words)
The expert said: “Pruning is an essential aspect of tomato cultivation. (11 words)
After pruning your climbing rose, feed it with a specialist rose product. (12 words)
There's a lot of, I think, cutting-edge work coming out here, both in terms of research and the work we're doing around things like pruning and distillation and quantization that make the inference execution much more efficient. (40 words)
The Mur- tala/Obasanjo military government acted differently in the 70s by limiting their own official cars to Peugeot 504 to prepare everyone for pruning down official expenditures dictated by the challenges of their time. (35 words)
Alternatively, an effective method to care for a peace lily post-pruning is to safeguard the fresh cuts with a horticultural pruning seal as this will help ward off any fungal disease infection. (33 words)
Example sentences (20)
Alternatively, an effective method to care for a peace lily post-pruning is to safeguard the fresh cuts with a horticultural pruning seal as this will help ward off any fungal disease infection.
The Victorinox Pruning Knife features a carefully honed curved blade designed to make pruning jobs swift, simple and precise.
Another type of pruning — aesthetic pruning — is used to improve the beauty of the vine rambling over a lamppost, trellis or pergola.
The final wood quality can be improved by pruning small branches at ages 5, 7, and 9. Pruning usually goes up to a height of convert.
After getting pepper sprayed, the man exited the truck with pruning shears in hand.
Although pruning a tree such as an apple or pear tree may seem daunting, it is quite easy to cut the tree back to a well-shaped, productive tree.
In the Central Valley, Norma Roman, 42, worked only three days last week out of the usual five pruning mandarin and almond trees.
Nevertheless, Intel is taking real actions in pruning the portfolio.
Planning Director Stephen Wensman said he recently noticed a lot of “heavy pruning” of trees at existing businesses.
Pruning them will avoid this - but you need to do it at the right time.
The expert said: “Pruning is an essential aspect of tomato cultivation.
The experts explained: “For most deciduous trees and shrubs, winter is a season of dormancy, making it the ideal time to tackle pruning them.
The figure is wearing a crown adorned with olive leaves, holding a laurel wreath, a plow stock and a pruning hook, according to the cemetery.
The Mur- tala/Obasanjo military government acted differently in the 70s by limiting their own official cars to Peugeot 504 to prepare everyone for pruning down official expenditures dictated by the challenges of their time.
There's a lot of, I think, cutting-edge work coming out here, both in terms of research and the work we're doing around things like pruning and distillation and quantization that make the inference execution much more efficient.
Too many gardeners attempt to shimmy and wiggle hand-held pruning shears through branches too thick to be cut effectively with this tool.
Watering, pruning, and even observing a plant's growth can be a short break from the daily grind.
Additional pruning in early spring may be beneficial if the plant has grown abundantly the summer before.
After pruning your climbing rose, feed it with a specialist rose product.
Before pruning, Monty suggested gardeners should "try to understand how something grows".
Common combinations with pruning
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- pruning and 15×
- and pruning 9×
- of pruning 8×
- pruning is 8×
- pruning the 7×
- pruning of 6×
- for pruning 6×
- pruning or 6×
- by pruning 4×
- pruning tree 3×