crosscut

Example Sentences

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“I don’t like the crosscut, because you’re relying on someone else.”

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 5, 2025

One day, her four-person crew hiked three miles into the woods toting a crosscut saw.

From Washington Post • Sep. 15, 2021

Throughout this thing, Thompson is dropping explanatory information and montages that are crosscut with more information.

From New York Times • Jun. 24, 2021

Howe and Stokes both grew up in Portland, and neither had a background in timber cutting, let alone using crosscut saws - the 19th-century tool known by lumberjacks as a “misery whip.”

From Washington Times • Oct. 28, 2018

I wouldn’t have been more scared if someone had thrown a crosscut saw at me.

From "Summer of the Monkeys" by Wilson Rawls