Cut

//kʌt//

"Cut" in a Sentence (105 examples)

I can't cut my nails and do the ironing at the same time!

Cut, wash and dry, please.

We are cut from the same cloth.

You should get your hair cut.

You should try to cut your way.

You must cut down on extra expenses in order to live within your means.

You smoke far too much. You should cut back.

Did you cut the paper?

You'd better have your hair cut at once.

We must cut our expenses to save money.

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You must cut this flesh from off his breast.

MARA: We are forty against four hundred. // KLINGON: Four thousand throats may be cut in one night by a running man.

Would you please cut the cake?

Before the whistling winds the vessels fly, / With rapid swiftness cut the liquid way.

First, marinate the tofu. In a bowl, whisk the kecap manis, chilli sauce, and sesame oil together. Cut the tofu into strips about 1cm thick, mix gently (so it doesn't break) with the marinade and leave in the fridge for half an hour.

I have three diamonds to cut today.

Why should a man, whose blood is warm within, / Sit like his grandsire cut in alabaster

loopholes cut through thickest shade

We don't want your money no more. We just going to cut you.

The patient said she had been cutting since the age of thirteen.

“My Continental prominence is improving,” I commented dryly. ¶ Von Lindowe cut at a furze bush with his silver-mounted rattan. ¶ “Quite so,” he said as dryly, his hand at his mustache. “I may say if your intentions were known your life would not be worth a curse.”

Sarcasm cuts to the quick.

she feared she should laugh to hear an European preach in Tamul , but on the contrary , was cut to the heart by what she heard

to cut a horse

The panels of white-wood that cuts like cheese, / But lasts like iron for things like these;

Travis was cut from the team.

They're going to cut salaries by fifteen percent.

In order to grant the rich these pleasures, the social contract is reconfigured. The welfare state is dismantled. Essential public services are cut so that the rich may pay less tax.

The principle of prioritising longer-distance trains by cutting services to wayside stations (often leading directly to their closure) is not new.

I cut fifth period to hang out with Angela.

An English tradesman is always solicitous to cut the shop whenever he can do so with impunity.

I gotta cut but I'll see you tomorrow, okay?

my friends and i had gone for lunch but i had to cut early and couldn't get dessert (which if you know me it's my top priority) so they got it packed and dropped off at my place without a word "open the lift and take it" ?????????? how is this real i will literally cry

After the incident at the dinner party, people started to cut him on the street.

At first it had been very painful to him to meet any of his old friends, … but this soon passed; either they cut him, or he cut them; it was not nice being cut for the first time or two, but after that, it became rather pleasant than not … The ordeal is a painful one, but if a man's moral and intellectual constitution are naturally sound, there is nothing which will give him so much strength of character as having been well cut.

The ordinary people greet him (Aaron Burr) warmly while the respectable folk tend to cut him dead.

The Monthly Magazine, Or, British Register for 1798 included an explanation by a reader of how the cut was carried out in his college days in a lengthy letter to the editor, signed by the pseudonym "Ansonius." In his rambling letter, Ansonius noted that when he was at college, " … if a man passed an old acquaintance wittingly, without recognizing him, he was said— ‘To cut him.’" Ansonius then went on to explain the performance of the cut and noted that for a time the term "to spear" was used instead of to cut. However, that term did not remain long in use, and this act was generally known as "the cut" ever after.

The camera then cut to the woman on the front row who was clearly overcome and crying tears of joy.

Select the text, cut it, and then paste it in the other application.

One student kept trying to cut in front of the line.

Excuse me, do you mind if I cut?!

This road cuts right through downtown.

Neither Joleon Lescott nor Vieira appeared to make any contact with Dyer as he cut between them.

Most of the Himalayan rivers have been relatively untouched by dams near their sources. Now the two great Asian powers, India and China, are rushing to harness them as they cut through some of the world's deepest valleys.

The football player cut to his left to evade a tackle.

If you cut then I'll deal.

I'll cut a check for you.

I didn't deserve it, but he cut me a deal.

to cut a deal, to cut deals

to cut a fantastic deal, to cut a raw deal

The best malt whiskies are improved if they are cut with a dash of water.

The bartender cuts his beer to save money and now it's all watery.

Drug dealers sometimes cut cocaine with lidocaine.

The Bender family cut a very distinct profile.

Arsenal were starting to work up a head of steam and Tractor Boys boss Paul Jewell cut an increasingly frustrated figure on the touchline.

The schoolchildren were told to cut the noise.

Cut the engines when the plane comes to a halt!

to cut a caper

'Choke, chicken, there's more a-hatching,' said Miss Mag, in a sort of aside, and cutting a flic-flac with a merry devilish laugh, and a wink to Puddock.

Now one of us had better cut down to Courtfield on a bike […]

The real purpose of building this railway on the part of the Japanese imperialists at that time was to spy on the Mongolian People's Republic and to transport the timber produced in the A-erh-t'ai forest zone.[…]The principal cargo consists of cut timber from the A-erh-t'ai-shan, and the cereal products of Wu-lan-hao-t'e.

The pitcher threw a cut fastball that was slower than his usual pitch.

Cut brandy is a liquor made of brandy and hard grain liquor.

Or how 'bout Shane DiMora? Could he possibly get rip-roaring cut this time around?

That's the premise of the overload principle, and it must be applied, even to ab training, if you're going to develop a cut, ripped midsection.

‘Here y'are,’ says the happy butcher, dragging out a bucket. ‘Good riddance. But me dogs'll be cut tonight, I tell ya. That's their grub.’

I was dev’lish cut—uncommon—been dining with some chaps at Greenwich.

He made a fine cut with his sword.

a smooth or clear cut

Look at this cut on my finger!

a cut through the hillside for a railroad

which great cut or ditch Sesostris […] purposed to have made a great deale wider and deeper.

The taxman always gets his cut, and that's fine as long as it's a haircut and not an amputation.

The bank robbers disbanded after everyone got their cut of the money.

Starting today, UE5 is free to download and use, with Epic taking a 5% cut on products created with it only after they earn over $1 million in gross revenue.

The boss took a 5% pay cut.

The editors went a little crazy making so many cuts.

I like the cut of that suit.

I like the cut of that jib.

with eyes severe and beard of formal cut

That’s our finest cut of meat.

Cope pushed away his coffee-cup and asked the young Greek for a cut of pie.

The director asked the cast to note down the following cuts.

the director's cut

The player next to the dealer makes a cut by placing the bottom half on top.

Rip called him by name, but the cur snarled, showed his teeth, and passed on. This was an unkind cut indeed.

After several experiences like this, I began to entertain a sort of respect for Kooloo, as quite a man of the world. In good sooth, he turned out to be one; in one week's time giving me the cut direct, and lounging by without even nodding. He must have taken me for part of the landscape.

1966-1969, Lou Sullivan, personal diary, quoted in 2019, Ellis Martin, Zach Ozma (editors), We Both Laughed In Pleasure We got out & there was a group of boppers, bout 25 of 'm in a group. They started yellin cuts, "queer" seemed to be the favorite they all began chanting it. "Hey, yer not gonna serve those queers, are ya Howie?"

The drummer on the last cut of their CD is not identified.

Best cuts: "The Evil Dude," "Kung Fu, Too!" "Mama Love," "New Orleans" (with a punchy vocal by Teresa Brewer).

That's the TL;DR, anyway. You can find a more detailed version under the cut.

The shunter has a lightweight portable radio transmitter by which, as he uncouples an incoming train into cuts for marshalling, he informs the Traffic Office of the number of wagons in each cut and its siding; [...].

a book illustrated with fine cuts

He's buy me a whit Cut, forth for to ride

Two women for stealing 30 cuttes of linen yarn.

Don't buy his coke: it's full of cut.

I'm laying in a cut 'bout to shoot me a mutt

I see Xzibit in the cut, hey, nigga, roll that weed up.

You don't mind me askin', why you want to sell? I mean, even from inside here, you can take a slice for just layin' in the cut.

In the cut, in the cut, rolling doobies up

Bitch I'm out, catch me chillin' in the cut. Me and my homies swag it out in the cut. It's a party going down in the cut.

Famous as fuck, but I’m still in the cut when they round up the troops.

She got me stuck. Like a truck, deep mud, deep ruts, way out in the cut. She got me stuck. Even four-wheel drive won't work this time, yeah.

We're off the beaten path from River Street downtown. So, it's, we're back here in the cut.

Near-synonym: scene!

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