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
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
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
Pulling her end of a crosscut saw, and swinging the heavy blade of a double-bitted ax, she helped Papa clear the land.
From "Summer of the Monkeys" by Wilson Rawls
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