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    Use "cutting off" in a sentence

    cutting off example sentences

    cutting off


    1. It didn’t help that he kept cutting off any potential escape route; he was always just at arms length away


    2. I would dream up the most vivid scenarios of me pulling off his toenails or tying him up in barbed wire or cutting off his penis and shoving it in a knife wound in his side


    3. When we cut the grass and remove it we are cutting off the cycle


    4. move dodges with cutting off a limb


    5. That was just enough to stave off the worst of the depression that cutting off yaag could bring, leaving her functioning but with a sad and quiet air


    6. After several minutes, he stops to survey the results of his labours, cutting off the power to the mower


    7. He would not be able to speak to his children, cutting off all chances of evolving to a higher standard


    8. The living before the dead was the maxim, so he headed across his land towards the boys now obviously frightened out of their minds until another wind gust blew more embers behind the lads, now cutting off any chance of escape, the only sound was the deafening roar of grass and trees catching alight and two boys trapped in an ever degreasing circle of fire


    9. He shouted in Ionian, saying how he handled thieves by cutting off their hands


    10. These would bury animals and plants, rapidly cutting off exposure to decaying agents and allow the remains to fossilise during the subsequent years that followed

    11. History lesson: How many of us are aware that, had the Ottoman Turks not overrun that city, the last bastion of the Eastern Roman Empire, in 1453, thus cutting off overland trade routes to Cathay and other places east


    12. It was a disease that had to be stopped like cutting off an infected limb


    13. The inmates huddled closer, cutting off his air supply, stifling him


    14. days, the cord biting into his wrists and ankles, cutting off his circulation


    15. Cutting off the chatty farmer, Bosco blurted, “Have you found out anything else about our problem?”


    16. ” The width of his grin convinced her she was right in cutting off the story


    17. The 1st Infantry extended, cutting off retreat to the hills, and a detachment of Cubans engaged the blockhouses on the north, but made a poor showing, having expended their ammunition recklessly before closing in


    18. Garcia with two thousand men was holding the extreme right, cutting off the San Luis valley and the five thousand men garrisoned there within sixteen miles of the beleaguered city but kept in ignorance of Toral's straits by the vigilance of the insurgents holding the intervening valley


    19. " my face was pushed into the mud, cutting off my words


    20. Panama was isolated from the rest of Colombia by geography, high mountains cutting off contact except by the sea

    21. You had simply set yourself the impossible task of walking North and South at the same time! This is impossible!! Your new method of cutting off the fuel supply to the habit engine will bring results in time


    22. Fearful, he strained to clench his fingers and held his arm to his chest, cutting off the flow of light


    23. Mediterranean ports, cutting off supplies to the Persian navy, neutralizing it


    24. 9 The writing of Hezekiah King of Judah, when he had been sick, and was recovered of his sickness: 10 I said in the cutting off


    25. became wedged between the wall and a building, cutting off their escape


    26. set his nest on high so that he may be delivered from the power of evil! 10 You have consulted shame to your house by cutting off


    27. cutting off of the head of the chief of our enemies


    28. British philosopher Roger Scruton observes in an American Spectator article that there has never been a more effective means of “cutting off a whole people from its inheritance of moral and spiritual capital


    29. “Now go soak your smelly big rock feet in a swimming pool of commercial bleach,” Jaden says, while cutting off the rook monster’s huge head as it lays helpless on the ground


    30. “Kill him!” the witch ordered to the monsters holding John, who promptly obeyed, cutting off John’s head

    31. 18 Then said Ozias to her O daughter blessed are you of the most high God above all the women on the Earth; and blessed be the Lord God which has created the heavens and the Earth which has directed you to the cutting off of the head of the chief of our enemies


    32. “But many of the others,” Moshe responded, cutting off further congratulatory offerings, “have


    33. " Or, I remind them of Saint Uncumber, who miraculously grew a beard on her wedding-day, to defend her virginity; or Saint Agatha, who sacrificed her beauty by cutting off her own nose with a knife, to deter a lustful kidnapper; or the Abbess Hilda, who wildly loved expensive gems as a youth, before her call to the cloister -- in particular, a red ruby on a short neck-chain -- and how, many decades later, when Abbess Hilda was old, a tumour grew inside her throat, and upon it being removed from her body by a surgical physician, it was the exact size and shape and colour of that ruby!


    34. ancient riverbed cutting off the town in that direction


    35. The temple tax was a lucrative form of income for the priests who were no doubt enraged by this lowly carpenter cutting off their source of revenue


    36. WITH STRICKLAND AND THE OTHER ATTORNIES PLEASE! I ask you to be patient bro because you are only cutting off your nose to spite your face when you alienate your attorney


    37. Connie presses her finger harder against his lips, cutting off his words


    38. Once the evil rooted tree was on fire and fell to the ground, the army of fighters began to hover over it, cutting off its roots one by one, until they hit the main core and chopped it off


    39. It’s getting thinner and tighter, cutting off my air


    40. Thus, cutting off the self-

    41. The cause of the death toll at Kings Cross was that a wooden escalator had caught fire, cutting off the means of escape for the unfortunate people that were trapped in the inferno


    42. She selected a cigar from a box on the table, and after cutting off the end with a little clipper, lit it


    43. Conan squatted beside the cactus, cutting off the thick pears and dexterously twitching out the spikes


    44. They went into the pits below the city and built a wall cutting off the western end of the catacombs, where lie the bodies of the ancient Xuchotlans, and of those Tlazitlans slain in the feud


    45. "he cursed the Jews for needlessly cutting off his toes


    46. Cutting off most of his hair he places it carefully onto the table and lays the scissors on top of it so that it will remain where he left it


    47. “Thank you, Doctor," Pratt said, cutting off his explanation


    48. Untreated, this buildup can cause a stroke by cutting off critical blood flow to the brain


    49. his menu, cutting off the inquiry


    50. html The Independent: Bangladesh Man Accused of Cutting off Wife's Hand














































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