How to Use cutoff in a Sentence

cutoff

1 of 2 noun

• The cutoff for new applications is next Wednesday.
• The food cutoff time should be tailored to the surgery time.
  — Dr. Keith Roach, oregonlive, 15 Oct. 2021
• At the time, this cutoff was somewhere in the UV end of the spectrum.
  — John Timmer, Ars Technica, 22 July 2022
• There may be a sharp cutoff in amounts west of the Beltway.
  — Washington Post, 8 July 2021
• The cutoff for the filing was April 13, and the campaign has since hit the $1.3 million mark.
  — Sharon Coolidge, The Enquirer, 10 Aug. 2021
• Her and her tutu and me and my cutoff jeans and dirty T-shirt.
  — Baz Bamigboye, Deadline, 23 Nov. 2024
• With the cutoff now just over $1 billion, five dropped off this year.
  — Jane Ho, Forbes, 19 Apr. 2023
• A couple of years ago, Spencer finished out the year just one spot away from the cutoff for the tour.
  — San Diego Union-Tribune, 18 Sep. 2021
• 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
• For the prior three years, the cutoff had been $2.1 billion.
  — Kerry A. Dolan, Forbes, 5 Oct. 2021
• 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
• 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
• 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
• Grip it and rip it just before the 7300-rpm fuel cutoff.
  — Dave Vanderwerp, Car and Driver, 29 Nov. 2021
• 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
• There is likely to be a sharp northern cutoff to the rainfall.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 16 Aug. 2021
• 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
• Tanya Ortiz Franklin raised concerns about a cutoff for some of the hiring.
  — Howard Blume Staff Writer, Los Angeles Times, 11 Aug. 2021
• In the case of screening colonoscopy, age 75 is not an absolute age cutoff.
  — Dr. Keith Roach, oregonlive, 1 Feb. 2022
• Sayed Mohamed al-Dairi walked through a bustling market in Gaza City just after the aid cutoff was announced.
  — Julia Frankel, Chicago Tribune, 5 Mar. 2025
• In the 50 years since Hilbert’s 10th problem was resolved, mathematicians have been searching for this cutoff.
  — Joseph Howlett, WIRED, 9 Mar. 2025

cut off

2 of 2 verb

• 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
• Sometimes words are cut off due to breaks in the voice.
  — Melissa Rudy, Fox News, 29 Jan. 2025
• 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
• Go down to Fantastic Sam's and get that thing cut off the back of your head.
  — Jim Krajewski, USA TODAY, 9 June 2022
• 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
• The second tool is the threat of being cut off from the telephone network.
  — Brian Fung, CNN, 18 Aug. 2022
• 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
• Ulla Johnson Give into the urge to cut off your hair when the temps get warmer.
  — ELLE, 1 Oct. 2022
• 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
• Just cut off the bottom, put them in a microwave-safe dish and microwave it for 10-15 seconds.
  — Cody Godwin, USA TODAY, 29 Jan. 2025
• 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
• As the run game goes the other direction, Wills will climb to the second level and try and cut off the linebacker.
  — Lance Reisland, cleveland, 12 Aug. 2022
• 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
• The sound of gunshots rang out, after which people started running and the video abruptly cut off.
  — Reuters, NBC News, 6 Mar. 2025
• Moscow is a major oil exporter, but countries backing Ukraine after Russia launched its full-scale invasion more than three years ago have attempted to cut off the vital source of income to Moscow's war effort.
  — Hannah Parry, Newsweek, 13 Mar. 2025