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 network aired his comments for about two minutes before cutting away.
From New York Times • Jan. 11, 2024
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
But she was tired of cell culture, tired of meticulously cutting away dead tissue like gristle from a steak, tired of having cells die after hours of work.
From "The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks" by Rebecca Skloot
