cutting

Example Sentences

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Firefighter hand crews were on the ground cutting fire lines to help contain the blaze.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 4, 2026

Magyar is partly cutting through the fraught media landscape using social media.

From BBC • Apr. 4, 2026

Before him was a tangle of circuit boards the size of a cutting board—big enough to slice a few Granny Smiths.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 3, 2026

While not as important as the cutting edge chips from U.S.,

From Barron's • Apr. 3, 2026

The helicopter was still a ways off, but they could see its searchlight cutting through the darkness, illuminating the falling snow.

From "Two Degrees" by Alan Gratz