How to Use cutoff in a Sentence

cutoff

1 of 2 noun

• The cutoff for new applications is next Wednesday.
• All those cities had a cutoff date of when the units were built, after which the rent caps didn’t apply.
  — Andrew Khouri, Los Angeles Times, 17 Oct. 2024
• At the time, this cutoff was somewhere in the UV end of the spectrum.
  — John Timmer, Ars Technica, 22 July 2022
• 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
• But any such cutoff would also hurt the Kremlin’s revenue to fund the war.
  — The Editorial Board, WSJ, 7 Sep. 2022
• Still, the cutoff underscored the broader risk to gas supplies from the war.
  — Elena Becatoros and Jon Gambrell, The Christian Science Monitor, 12 May 2022
• Many houses have a water cutoff on the outside of their homes.
  — Heloise, Arkansas Online, 1 Nov. 2022
• That final cutoff was not the hardest part, Lehrer said.
  — Sindya N. Bhanoo, Anchorage Daily News, 26 Feb. 2022
• Some urged the world to end or find ways around the financial cutoff that has wrecked the economy.
  — Ebrahim Noroozi, BostonGlobe.com, 24 June 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
• In the case of screening colonoscopy, age 75 is not an absolute age cutoff.
  — Dr. Keith Roach, oregonlive, 1 Feb. 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
• Reese paired the custom, one-of-a-kind jersey with cutoff denim shorts, black knee-high boots and a turquoise Chanel bag.
  — Danielle Jennings, People.com, 21 Oct. 2024
• The rest of the year, from the second Sunday in March through the first Saturday in November, the cutoff time goes back an hour to 6:59 p.m.
  — Shelby Slade, The Arizona Republic, 11 Sep. 2024
• The rest of the year, from the second Sunday in March through the first Saturday in November, the cutoff time goes back an hour to 6:59 p.m.
  — Raphael Romero Ruiz, The Arizona Republic, 18 May 2024
• Three seasons, or sooner, tends to be the cutoff point now, more often than not.
  — Andy Meek, BGR, 26 July 2022
• Wear it with white linen pants or denim cutoffs — the basic top can be styled in endless ways.
  — Michelle Rostamian, Peoplemag, 15 July 2024
• While on the go, she was also seen wearing a purple fur coat, with an Alaïa suit, cutoff leather gloves, and a plaid beret.
  — Angel Saunders, Peoplemag, 2 Apr. 2024
• Even before the six-week ban, when the cutoff for the procedure was at 15, Jasper had little time to decide what to do.
  — Shefali Luthra, TIME, 15 May 2024
• But then other people proposed other cutoffs related to different biological properties.
  — Janna Levin, Quanta Magazine, 24 Oct. 2024

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cut off

2 of 2 verb

• Ulla Johnson Give into the urge to cut off your hair when the temps get warmer.
  — ELLE, 1 Oct. 2022
• This morning’s must read Copper thieves cut off this SoCal suburb’s phones for months and the bills kept coming.
  — Defne Karabatur, Los Angeles Times, 27 Nov. 2024
• Their habitats were ransacked, their migration routes disarranged, truncated, cut off.
  — Anna Badkhen, Harper’s Magazine , 28 Sep. 2022
• Days of street protests in numerous Iranian cities have turned deadly as protesters have burned their headscarves and cut off their hair in defiance of strict dress codes.
  — Amy Hubbard, Los Angeles Times, 23 Sep. 2022
• The military have since become more tolerant of tattoos, cutting off that particular draft-dodging loophole.
  — Jessie Yeung, CNN, 26 Nov. 2024
• The new support comes amid deep concerns in Ukraine that the incoming Trump administration might cut off military aid to the country.
  — John Ismay, New York Times, 3 Dec. 2024
• Cell service was out in many areas, and flooding has cut off whole communities as of Thursday morning making rescues next to impossible, officials said.
  — Leigh Morgan, al, 29 Sep. 2022
• There have been complaints of the Fitbit app cutting off the top parts of the interface, making certain controls and pieces of information inaccessible.
  — Andrew Williams, Forbes, 3 Dec. 2024
• Use a knife to cut off the green crown and stem end of the pineapple.
  — Sheena Chihak, Better Homes & Gardens, 20 June 2024
• Pull weeds out by the roots or cut off the top growth with a hoe.
  — Nan Sterman, San Diego Union-Tribune, 4 Mar. 2023
• Trim the leaves and cut off the stem of the cauliflower, but leave the head whole.
  — Anna Luisa Rodriguez, Washington Post, 22 Nov. 2022
• Greenlaw cut off the route and Prescott rushed a throw to Michael Gallup near the sideline.
  — Derrik Klassen, New York Times, 22 Jan. 2023
• Because the fascia does not stretch, this can cut off blood flow to the area.
  — Amy Kwan, Verywell Health, 1 Nov. 2024
• The forecast cuts off as the storm is expected to make that turn.
  — Elizabeth Weise, USA TODAY, 9 Sep. 2023
• Ye cut off the partnership last month, and his lawyer told the BBC that Ye would open the stores on his own.
  — Jacob Bogage, Washington Post, 12 Oct. 2022
• 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
• When the pot is moved the following spring, the bottom may fall off as if it had been cut off.
  — Tim Johnson, Chicago Tribune, 27 Nov. 2022
• Parrish slid her feet to cut off the Maryland guard as the clock neared the 6-minute mark of the second quarter.
  — Wilson Moore, The Indianapolis Star, 13 Jan. 2023
• Israel cut off food, fuel and medicine to Gaza early in the war.
  — James Doubek, NPR, 28 Apr. 2024
• One was turned away from the crime scene while the other had been cut off completely.
  — Jessica Schladebeck, New York Daily News, 13 June 2024
• Here’s the second play of the game: Watch how Allen and Mobley can just move to cut off the threat of Markkanen cutting to the paint.
  — Andy Larsen, The Salt Lake Tribune, 19 Dec. 2022
• 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
• The video cuts off abruptly and does not show the voter's final ballot.
  — Peter Charalambous, ABC News, 1 Nov. 2024
• Noriko gets cut off from the rest of the cast, and any potential insight into her son along with her.
  — Alison Herman, Variety, 10 July 2024
• 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
• They've been cut off from the world, and the rescue workers and aid are having trouble getting to them.
  — Taylor Wilson, USA TODAY, 4 Oct. 2024
• 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
• Chief among them being: the weight cut off to be eligible is a flat 154 pounds.
  — Wilson Chapman, IndieWire, 5 Sep. 2024

Last Updated: 21 Dec 2024