How to Use cut it in a Sentence

cut it

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• In this era, trust alone won’t cut it—be machine-ready, fast and precise.
  — Bohdan Savchuk, Forbes.com, 26 Feb. 2026
• Look for a healthy shoot that’s at least four inches long and cut it right below a leaf node.
  — Heather Bien, Southern Living, 9 July 2026
• Those offers didn’t cut it for the few dozen residents who’ve held out.
  — Max Klaver, Miami Herald, 2 July 2026
• Who would think that somebody would go into a pool and take a knife and start cutting it?
  — Hanna Rosin, The Atlantic, 23 July 2026
• One tiny coin pocket placed on the very back side of a skirt or pair of pants just isn’t going to cut it.
  — Gabby Herzig, New York Times, 9 July 2026
• Randy Arozarena hit his 10th homer to cut it to 6-2 in the fifth.
  — ABC News, 9 July 2026
• Rinsing Rinsing is quick and easy, but a quick pass under the faucet won’t cut it.
  — Lynn Andriani, Martha Stewart, 19 July 2026
• The dining table extended out into the space, cutting it in two.
  — R. Daniel Foster, Forbes.com, 30 June 2026
• That may not cut it for higher volume goods, longer distances, and industries built around quick turnaround times.
  — Abhimanyu Ghoshal, New Atlas, 28 June 2026
• When growing it in containers, make sure to cut it back, notes Conaway—wormwood tends to grow leggy.
  — Helena Madden, Martha Stewart, 6 July 2026
• This will spread them out in time so that any additional photons that come from cutting it off are observable.
  — Chris Lee, ArsTechnica, 22 July 2026
• The key is using enough product and covering the whole face evenly, since a light dusting isn’t going to cut it.
  — Lauren Jarvis-Gibson, Kansas City Star, 2 July 2026
• To get the plant back on track, cut it back into a compact shape and rotate it regularly to ensure all sides will receive sun.
  — Karen Brewer Grossman, Southern Living, 29 June 2026
• According to the pros, straightforward removal methods like pulling or herbicide won't cut it.
  — The Spruce, 6 July 2026
• Those tactics may represent the initial stepping stones of a long-term plan, but a single splash usually won’t cut it in a new market.
  — Andrea Aker, Forbes.com, 17 July 2026
• The draft used to be 40 to 50 rounds, but the league and union agreed to cut it to 20 starting in 2021.
  — Alex Kirshner, New York Times, 11 July 2026
• Something had to be done — and spinning off the cable channels into a new company called Versant wouldn’t cut it.
  — Samantha Masunaga, Los Angeles Times, 7 July 2026
• According to Levine, no attempt should be made to remove the venom yourself, whether by sucking on the wound or cutting it.
  — Anne Ewbank, Sacbee.com, 7 July 2026
• Courage forward Evelyn Ijeh took advantage of a turnover to cut it to 2-1 in the 55th minute.
  — ABC News, 25 July 2026
• Young led off the third against Angels rookie Ryan Johnson (1-3) with his eighth homer to cut it to 2-1.
  — Los Angeles Times, 30 June 2026
• But as hardware improvements struggle to keep up with the swift rise in the size of large language models, even massive single data centers are no longer cutting it.
  — IEEE Spectrum, 7 Apr. 2026
• In 2017, Trump cut it in half; in 2021, Joe Biden expanded it once more.
  — Alex Greenberger, ARTnews.com, 14 July 2026
• Adames nearly got the Giants’ first hit on a two-out grounder up the middle in the seventh, only for second baseman Ernie Clement to cut it off and throw him out.
  — Cam Inman, Mercury News, 8 July 2026
• When taking cuttings for propagation, Gifford recommends selecting a healthy, non-flowering stem and cutting it just below a node.
  — Madeline Buiano, Martha Stewart, 17 July 2026
• Elementary school students might memorize their times tables for single-digit numbers, but memorization won’t cut it when the teacher asks for three-digit multiplication.
  — Jack Murtagh, Scientific American, 13 July 2026
• An uncouth mix of stress and chlorine exposure recently left my skin simultaneously drier and more breakout-prone than it's been in quite a long time, and my usual routine of a quarter-size drop of skin tint just wasn’t cutting it anymore.
  — Sarah Hoffmann, Allure, 1 July 2026
• In one of the side plots to The Lord of the Rings, two of the Hobbits attempt to rouse Treebeard—a wise but ponderous sentient tree—to defend his forest from an army that is cutting it down.
  — Ashley Belanger, ArsTechnica, 1 July 2026
• Cleveland loaded the bases against reliever Sean Newcomb in the sixth and cut it to 5-3 on an RBI groundout by Chase DeLauter.
  — ABC News, 2 July 2026
• Mitchell scored on Braden Shewmake's sacrifice fly in the second, and Chourio scored in the third on an RBI double by William Contreras that cut it to 3-2.
  — ABC News, 18 July 2026
• Assuming Apple holds the $699 price (or even cuts it to $599 for an entry-level MacBook Neo 2), the Neo will remain a value-for-money option for entering Apple’s ecosystem.
  — Ewan Spence, Forbes.com, 27 July 2026