How to Use cut down in a Sentence

cut down

verb

• But Berry does want the team to cut down on the penalties.
  — Terry Pluto, cleveland, 10 Sep. 2022
• The screen behind them had to be cut down to get through the door.
  — Wendy Goodman, Curbed, 28 Jan. 2025
• Look for the Gamecocks to again cut down nets in March (and April).
  — Lindsay Schnell, USA TODAY, 7 Nov. 2022
• The Blue Devils have the best odds to cut down the nets in the Alamodome.
  — Ron Estes, MSNBC Newsweek, 31 Mar. 2025
• The vote should help cut down on the number of robocalls made.
  — TIME, 15 Dec. 2023
• In most cases, the tree is cut down to harvest the roots.
  — Anne Pinto-Rodrigues, The Christian Science Monitor, 18 Mar. 2025
• Walz hopes his team can cut down on the turnovers and aims for about 10 or less a night.
  — Alexis Cubit, The Courier-Journal, 6 Jan. 2023
• The Jose Tartabull throw from right that cut down Ken Berry at the plate.
  — Kevin Paul Dupont, BostonGlobe.com, 20 Aug. 2022
• That will help cut down on the amount of dirt that gets under your nails.
  — Washington Post, 28 Sep. 2021
• Nacua cut down on junk food and worked on the field and in the weight room to make his body leaner.
  — Gary Klein, Los Angeles Times, 29 July 2024
• Or use an Instant Pot to cut down the process to just an hour or less.
  — Audrey Bruno, SELF, 21 Nov. 2022
• Good signage calms a golfer down and cuts down on angst.
  — Moira McCarthy, Boston Herald, 10 July 2025
• Maikel Garcia charged and threw to the plate to cut down Andrew Vaughn.
  — Lamond Pope, Chicago Tribune, 8 May 2025
• The Tigers hugged and posed for photographs and climbed a ladder to cut down the nets.
  — New York Times, 14 Mar. 2022
• Daniel was cut down trying to steal third and Nolensville couldn't add on.
  — Wilson Moore, The Indianapolis Star, 23 Aug. 2022
• This can help cut down on food waste and grocery bills.
  — Jennifer Pattison Tuohy, The Verge, 31 Aug. 2024
• Jay's Tree Farm provides tools and supplies to cut down the trees.
  — Rachel Fradette, The Indianapolis Star, 16 Nov. 2022
• But if they are cut down and used to make paper, the same CO2 is released.
  — Ken Silverstein, Forbes.com, 6 May 2025
• Metroparks rangers learned of the tree being cut down more than a week later.
  — Cory Shaffer, cleveland, 19 May 2022
• With the semi-finals ahead of us, that means our Top 10 will be cut down to a Top 8.
  — Maggie Fremont, EW.com, 30 Nov. 2022
• The good news is that there are plenty of ways to cut down on the amount of food waste being tossed away.
  — Laura Schulte, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 7 Sep. 2021
• Its trees had been cut down to the roots—the trunks neatly dominoed, flat and brittle against the earth.
  — Anna Wiener, The New Yorker, 15 Sep. 2021
• The sea wall project will begin in May, and Stumpy is among about 300 trees that will be cut down this year.
  — Kevin Ambrose, Washington Post, 21 Mar. 2024
• They can be cut down among the foliage to keep the declining stems out of sight.
  — Tom MacCubbin, Orlando Sentinel, 15 June 2024
• Learning the layout of the store can help cut down on impulse buys.
  — Emily Vanschmus, Better Homes & Gardens, 31 July 2022
• There’s a lot of guys that had soreness today that had reps cut down.
  — Safid Deen, USA TODAY, 27 July 2023
• But booking a tour on your own could cut down on the cruise’s overall cost.
  — Nathan Diller, USA TODAY, 4 Nov. 2024
• The mulch in the Dilworth Community Garden came from the trees, brush and vines the group cut down.
  — Page Leggett, Charlotte Observer, 1 Feb. 2024
• When was the last time the Miami Dolphins waived a player on cut down day and lived to regret it?
  — Miami Herald, 24 Aug. 2025
• Our driver cuts down an alley, a ruelle in the local parlance, only to run into more gridlock.
  — Jeff Ihaza, Rolling Stone, 14 Aug. 2025