cutting away

Example Sentences

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Odder still, Ahn has a too-clever tic of cutting away from big confrontations.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 17, 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

Instead, I take my knife and go to work on a pine tree, cutting away the outer bark and scraping off a large handful of the softer inner bark.

From "The Hunger Games" by Suzanne Collins