cutting away

Example Sentences

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The reason for repeatedly doing so isn’t ever made clear and feels as jarring as suddenly cutting away from a fight scene or a soliloquy.

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 7, 2024

Demme closes in on Weymouth playing two notes in a song before cutting away to a guitar solo.

From Salon • Sep. 21, 2023

Circuit Court of Appeals last week significantly whittled down that order, eliminating some defendants and cutting away language that prohibited mere encouragement of content changes.

From Seattle Times • Sep. 14, 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