cutting away

Example Sentences

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Odder still, Ahn has a too-clever tic of cutting away from big confrontations.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 17, 2025

With the new economic measures, the premier pledged to shift Japan's economy, which has tended to focus on cost cutting, away from such practices.

From Reuters • Sep. 25, 2023

Demme closes in on Weymouth playing two notes in a song before cutting away to a guitar solo.

From Salon • Sep. 21, 2023

Najeebah Al-Ghadban is a collage artist who, through the cutting away or transfiguration of images, focuses on how much we reveal or conceal about our internal worlds.

From New York Times • Jul. 20, 2023

Instead, I take my knife and go to work on a pine tree, cutting away the outer bark and scraping off a large handful of the softer inner bark.

From "The Hunger Games" by Suzanne Collins