How to Use cutoff in a Sentence

cutoff

1 of 2 noun

• The cutoff for new applications is next Wednesday.
• With the cutoff now just over $1 billion, five dropped off this year.
  — Jane Ho, Forbes, 19 Apr. 2023
• The cutoff date for the survey was March 20, about 10 days after the bank failures.
  — Matt Grossman, WSJ, 29 Mar. 2023
• Even with that cutoff, there were still a wide range of options.
  — Bobbi Dempsey, Popular Mechanics, 15 Feb. 2023
• Meanwhile, Martinez raced to a two-out double on a ball cutoff in the gap in the ninth.
  — Evan Grant, Dallas News, 13 Aug. 2023
• The start of the regular season may not be the cutoff in this scenario.
  — Jarrett Bell, USA TODAY, 5 Sep. 2023
• Before that, the state had a two-year cutoff for adults to bring forth their cases in court.
  — Doha Madani, NBC News, 15 June 2023
• The mom of two styled it with a white tank top, black cutoff shorts, and high-top Converse sneakers.
  — Taylor Jean Stephan, Peoplemag, 26 Oct. 2023
• The lab explanation did note that the IOM's cutoff was 20.
  — Christie Aschwanden, Scientific American, 19 Dec. 2023
• The Suns were making a push, and a loss would have left the Lakers on the wrong side of the cutoff for making the play-in tournament.
  — Helene Elliott, Los Angeles Times, 23 Mar. 2023
• Many houses have a water cutoff on the outside of their homes.
  — Heloise, Arkansas Online, 1 Nov. 2022
• The quarterback with the black cutoff T-shirt and bleach-blond hair is leading a huddle.
  — Kevin Reynolds, The Salt Lake Tribune, 31 Oct. 2022
• Oregon is 12 strokes back of leader Georgia Tech and three back of 15th place, the cutoff line after the first three rounds.
  — oregonlive, 27 May 2023
• The House also wants to raise the threshold to $2 million, but the tax would apply only above that cutoff.
  — Larry Edelman, BostonGlobe.com, 9 June 2023
• That left him $300 million shy of the Forbes cutoff when the magazine unveiled the list Tuesday.
  — Matt Egan, CNN, 4 Oct. 2023
• Shearling is chic and will go great well into the seasonal shift to cutoff shorts.
  — Town & Country, 13 Apr. 2023
• There’s a young Kevin Bacon wearing a ringer tee and short denim cutoffs.
  — Christian Allaire, Vogue, 25 Oct. 2023
• That would also mean areas further west wouldn't see much snow at all due to a sharp cutoff.
  — Rebecca Loroff, Journal Sentinel, 23 Mar. 2023
• Heidi Klum is beating the heat this summer in her tiny denim cutoffs — with a twist!
  — Averi Kremposky, Peoplemag, 24 July 2023
• If the saw has a low threshold for thermal cutoff to protect the battery and circuitry, that will shut the saw off.
  — Roy Berendsohn, Popular Mechanics, 30 Nov. 2022
• The video opens by showing off the artwork on the star’s backside while she is dressed in a yellow and white printed crop top and cutoff white denim shorts.
  — Alexis Jones, Peoplemag, 2 Sep. 2023
• Their tops were jersey-inspired and paired with cutoff denim jorts.
  — Kerane Marcellus, Essence, 15 Nov. 2023
• This privilege came to an end anyway when Hisham and Kinnan turned 16, the cutoff age by Israeli law.
  — Rozina Ali, New York Times, 28 Feb. 2024
• Then, they were spurned by perhaps the next best option just before Tuesday’s 3 p.m. cutoff.
  — Jack Harris, Los Angeles Times, 1 Aug. 2023
• Elsewhere in the complex, Sarah Walters, 41, arrived in flip-flops and cutoff shorts to assess the damage to her mother’s house.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 30 Sep. 2022
• There’s the feeling that Stessel maintains the optimism of her cutoff childhood with her here.
  — Liana Satenstein, Vogue, 24 Dec. 2022
• With the new cutoff at the end of the eighth inning in some ballparks, there is now just one inning left of play before fans could be heading for the exits and getting on the road.
  — Jeremy Cluff, The Arizona Republic, 11 Apr. 2023
• The bill is more restrictive than Graham’s previous bills, which had a cutoff of 20 weeks.
  — Steven Lemongello, Orlando Sentinel, 14 Sep. 2022
• At least with percentages there would be a little bit of unknown with that cutoff number.
  — Kyle Neddenriep, The Indianapolis Star, 13 Apr. 2023
• The Mulholland Drive star wore a white blouse with jean cutoff shorts for the outing, with a green jacket draped over her shoulders and a brown bag hanging at her left hip.
  — Tommy McArdle, Peoplemag, 12 June 2023

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cut off

2 of 2 verb

• The forecast cuts off as the storm is expected to make that turn.
  — Elizabeth Weise, USA TODAY, 9 Sep. 2023
• One boy, a sophomore, even tries to cut off his feet with a hacksaw.
  — Charles McGrath, The New Yorker, 7 Aug. 2023
• As the guest of honor, I was instructed to cut off the cheeks and pass them to the other guests.
  — Stanley Stewart, Condé Nast Traveler, 22 Mar. 2024
• The video then cuts off as Everson appears to fall over.
  — Hannah Sacks, Peoplemag, 20 July 2023
• And while the rocket launch was smooth sailing at first, the live feed of Bradley, Cory and Paul cut off as the episode concluded.
  — Dory Jackson, Peoplemag, 13 Sep. 2023
• Use a sharp knife, and cut off the new clump that’s forming, along with some of its creeping rhizomes.
  — Arricca Elin Sansone, Country Living, 17 Aug. 2023
• Transfer the cream to a piping bag (or zipper bag with a corner cut off), and place eight dollops on the pie.
  — Amanda Stanfield, Southern Living, 27 Nov. 2023
• And building the dike in Kazakhstan cut off the south part of the sea in Uzbekistan from its crucial water source.
  — Victoria Milko, Quartz, 8 Feb. 2024
• Many of the most senior users, or those claiming to have been using water for the longest time, weren’t cut off.
  — Raymond Zhong, New York Times, 18 Jan. 2024
• Add chicken to brine: Pat chicken pieces dry; cut breasts in half, and cut off and discard wing tips.
  — Southern Living Test Kitchen, Southern Living, 24 Dec. 2023
• Cracks and crevices may also be sealed to cut off pathways into a home or structure.
  — Cole Sikes Communications and Marketing Specialist Alabama Cooperative Extension System, al, 8 Aug. 2023
• Thus far, Thompson has made an impact cutting off the ball, crashing the boards, and waiting in the dunker spot.
  — Rahat Huq, Forbes, 27 Feb. 2024
• Traffic on the old Athens-Patras national road, running across the coast, has been cut off.
  — Demetris Nellas, Chicago Tribune, 23 July 2023
• Russia’s move to cut off gas flows to Europe is one example.
  — Mary Hui, Quartz, 29 Mar. 2023
• Even though the horns grow back, poachers kill rhinos instead of sedating them to cut off the horns.
  — Alex Sundby, CBS News, 20 Sep. 2023
• For warmer days, there’s also a shorter style — there’s not many sizes left in brown — that cuts off at the calf for even more breathability.
  — Alyssa Grabinski, Peoplemag, 10 Apr. 2024
• But young people in school don’t learn the history of Nigeria, our schools don’t teach them the history, so they are cut off from it.
  — Scott Roxborough, The Hollywood Reporter, 20 Dec. 2023
• On the decision to cut off her long locks for a pixie cut in September, Hill knows that there was no better time.
  — Hannah Jackson, Vogue, 15 Nov. 2023
• Pictures shared by the police department Thursday showed the life-sized statue was cut off at the ankles and hauled away.
  — Rebekah Riess, CNN, 27 Jan. 2024
• He was cut off from the outside world, detained with only a book on quantum mechanics to read.
  — Christian Shepherd, Washington Post, 27 July 2023
• In Hindu mythology, a serpent god, Rahu Ketu, wanted to eat the sun — but then his head was cut off.
  — Bill Chappell, NPR, 8 Apr. 2024
• Nearly 2 million have been cut off from food, water, fuel and medicine.
  — Hazem Balousha, Washington Post, 21 Oct. 2023
• Westbrook opted for a black Thom Browne tuxedo with cut off shorts in contrast his wife Nina's black and white suit.
  — Cydney Henderson, USA TODAY, 15 Mar. 2023
• Just cut off and dispose of the eyes, or sprouts, and prepare them as usual.5 Green potatoes are another matter.
  — Tamara Gane, Southern Living, 16 Dec. 2023
• Either pick another piece of produce or cut off the soft spots.
  — Emilie Le Beau Lucchesi, Discover Magazine, 11 Jan. 2024
• At the museum, Warwick is cut off mid-sentence by her phone ringing.
  — Sonia Rao, Washington Post, 28 Nov. 2023
• Police said the victim either cut off or drove around a vehicle that was sitting at the entrance.
  — Carol Robinson | [e-mail], al, 20 Mar. 2023
• Ukraine is focused on two main southward thrusts, with the aim of cutting off Russian resupply routes.
  — Carlotta Gall, New York Times, 31 July 2023
• Zelensky told the Senate that his country would fight to the last man, Bennet said, even if Congress cuts off funding.
  — Jacob Bogage, Washington Post, 21 Dec. 2023
• Initially, men’s mules were made out of leather, with an upper that covered the foot up to around the ankle, before cutting off to an open back.
  — Brad Lanphear, Men's Health, 8 Aug. 2023

Last Updated: 7 May 2024