cutting away
Example Sentences
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“The executive thus can neither outright abolish an agency nor incapacitate it by cutting away the personnel required to implement the agency’s statutorily-mandated duties.”
From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 13, 2025
The somber convoys of hearses and relatives crossed much of the battered Acapulco en route to the cemetery, passing ransacked stores, streets strewn with debris and soldiers cutting away fallen trees.
From Seattle Times • Oct. 30, 2023
Demme closes in on Weymouth playing two notes in a song before cutting away to a guitar solo.
From Salon • Sep. 21, 2023
Najeebah Al-Ghadban is a collage artist who, through the cutting away or transfiguration of images, focuses on how much we reveal or conceal about our internal worlds.
From New York Times • Jul. 20, 2023
He came out into a field and saw men deploying, moving out on both sides of the road, cutting away the fences: Pender’s Division.
From "The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War" by Michael Shaara
