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

The threat of danger is palpable, but it’s crosscut by a flicker of joy — she’s making a break for it, running away, getting free.

From New York Times • Nov. 27, 2019

He brought to the club the skills to work a crosscut saw and swing a pulaski - a wildland firefighter’s hand tool that’s been in use for more than a century.

From Washington Times • Oct. 28, 2018

Working with crosscut saws, shovels and a combination digging-cutting tool called a Pulaski, they sought to starve fires using similar methods to those of contemporary smoke jumpers.

From Washington Post • Dec. 11, 2017

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

From "Summer of the Monkeys" by Wilson Rawls