cut off
Example Sentences
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Cornwall and most of Devon were cut off from the rest of the railway network for eight weeks, causing travel chaos.
From BBC
Others were taken away by helicopter as roads were cut off by flooding.
From Barron's
He said the drone attacks there decreased by as much as 15% after Starlink was cut off, which coincided with weather changes and a regrouping of Russian forces in the south.
The main road linking the city to the capital, Antananarivo, was cut off in several places, "blocking humanitarian convoys", it said, while telecommunications were unstable.
From Barron's
"It is unacceptable that fellow Kenyans in Mandera remain cut off from their kin and neighbours in Somalia due to the prolonged closure of the Mandera Border Post," Ruto posted on X.
From BBC
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