How to Use cutting room in a Sentence
cutting room
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What are the costs of leaving all the rest on the cutting room floor?
—Peter Weber, The Week, 20 July 2022
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At the tail end of last year, both were left on the cutting room floor.
—Kelsey Butler, Anchorage Daily News, 26 Dec. 2022
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What’s the best story from the book that got left on the cutting room floor?
—Daniel Kohn, SPIN, 25 Apr. 2022
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Was anything left on the cutting room floor in this episode?
—Jessica Radloff, Glamour, 12 Apr. 2022
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And what get left on the cutting room floor are all the true curiosities.
—K. Austin Collins, Rolling Stone, 10 June 2021
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Some songs Zimmer wrote for the film that were sung by Josh Brolin were left on the cutting room floor.
—Wilson Chapman, Variety, 16 Mar. 2022
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However, the butt rig was left on the cutting room floor.
—Zack Sharf, Variety, 4 Oct. 2022
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And then your best moments don't even make the show, ending up on the cutting room floor.
—Dalton Ross, EW.com, 18 Nov. 2021
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And Leguizamo is doing his part so that these stories aren't left on the cutting room floor.
—Rosy Cordero, EW.com, 3 Sep. 2020
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But many of their earliest songs from the late '60s were left on the cutting room floor – until now.
—Patrick Ryan, USA TODAY, 10 Nov. 2020
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Even with hours of footage left on the cutting room floor, there is still so much to unpack from Smith’s interview.
—Sarah Midkiff, refinery29.com, 20 Sep. 2020
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After Disney acquired Fox and Blue Sky, the film and its home studio were left on the cutting room floor.
—Sasha Urban, Variety, 11 Apr. 2022
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But fans of the Rocky saga might be forgiven for wondering, what got left on the cutting room floor?
—Brent Lang, Variety, 30 Sep. 2021
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Prince turns and fires at a fleeing man before walking out of the granite-cutting room.
—James Whitlow, baltimoresun.com, 19 Oct. 2020
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KiKi Layne is sharing her thoughts about ending up on the cutting room floor.
—Amethyst Tate, Peoplemag, 26 Sep. 2022
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Every movie has their almost-was moments — a piece of casting that changed, a scene that was left on the cutting room floor.
—Maureen Lee Lenker, EW.com, 1 June 2021
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Luckily, Aranda was able to share a few gems that ended up on the cutting room floor.
—Rachel Paige, refinery29.com, 13 Apr. 2021
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Of course, not all of it — or, come to think of it, none of it — was suitable for primetime material and is on the cutting room floor.
—Dalton Ross, EW.com, 31 Mar. 2021
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Both her parents worked in the industry — her father in the cutting room and her mother in the costume shop.
—Charles McNultytheater Critic, Los Angeles Times, 31 Mar. 2022
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Here is a look at the shotguns that defined the first 20 years of the 20th century, plus a shotgun that would have been better left on the cutting room floor.
—John Gordon, Outdoor Life, 22 Mar. 2021
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Other priorities are likely to fall on the cutting room floor as the clock ticks down.
—Allison Pecorin, ABC News, 28 Nov. 2022
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Will Arnett, as the gleefully wisecracking host, spends much of that time goofing around with the teams, most of which will end up on the cutting room floor.
—Rodney Ho, ajc, 19 Sep. 2022
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Most of that by necessity has been left on the digital cutting room floor.
—Mark Swed, Los Angeles Times, 8 Apr. 2022
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My ideas fell with a thud on the cutting room floor, no cushion of mutual experience to buoy them.
—Elyse Inamine, Bon Appétit, 29 June 2020
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There are a lot of creatures that are on the [cutting room] floor, a lot of joke runs, a lot of serious stuff.
—Jordan Moreau, Variety, 25 June 2026
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This is especially evident in the film's final scene, which would have been better on the cutting room floor.
—Kimi Robinson, The Arizona Republic, 19 Jan. 2023
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At the tail end of last year, both were left on the cutting room floor.
—Kelsey Butler, Anchorage Daily News, 26 Dec. 2022
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But other pieces of legislation were left on the cutting room floor.
—Lisa Hagen, Hartford Courant, 24 Dec. 2022
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Cannabis banking legislation was also left on the cutting room floor.
—Alexandra Hutzler, ABC News, 20 Dec. 2022
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Most of them end up on the [cutting room] floor, or there’s too much cutting within scenes, but both outcomes are depressing.
—Brian Davids, The Hollywood Reporter, 3 Sep. 2019
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