How to Use on the cutting-room floor in a Sentence

on the cutting-room floor

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  • Funnily enough, there was a lot on the cutting-room floor.
    Tyler Coates, The Hollywood Reporter, 19 Mar. 2022
  • There’s some crazy electronic songs that got left on the cutting-room floor.
    Vulture, 21 Feb. 2022
  • Is there more Manny on the cutting-room floor somewhere?
    Vulture, 28 May 2022
  • Kim Kardashian’s archival dress is on the cutting-room floor.
    Blonde Trailer: Fade, Vulture, 28 July 2022
  • That’s why the Justice in Policing Act’s racial-profiling provisions would be best left on the cutting-room floor.
    James R. Copland, National Review, 20 Aug. 2020
  • If expansion does continue, these programs may be the biggest names left on the cutting-room floor.
    Jeremy Cluff, The Arizona Republic, 12 Aug. 2021
  • Those were two of the wrong guesses — Bolts and Rangers — that wound up on the cutting-room floor in the hilarious person-on-the-street video the Tennessee Titans created for their schedule release.
    Sam Farmer, Los Angeles Times, 13 May 2023
  • Those were two of the wrong guesses — Bolts and Rangers — that wound up on the cutting-room floor in the hilarious person-on-the-street video the Tennessee Titans created for their schedule release.
    Sam Farmer, Los Angeles Times, 13 May 2023
  • During the process of creating original characters for the visual novel, numerous ideas ended up on the cutting-room floor.
    Reece Rogers, Wired, 11 Mar. 2021
  • In the past, any political differences among the cast could be edited out; major discussions about gender, race, class, or sexuality could be left on the cutting-room floor.
    Carrie Battan, The New Yorker, 29 Dec. 2021
  • Left on the cutting-room floor Even though the council met almost 98 percent of the county’s funding requests, some initiatives did not make it onto the final reconciliation list.
    Katie Shepherd, Washington Post, 24 May 2023
  • Left on the cutting-room floor Even though the council met almost 98 percent of the county’s funding requests, some initiatives did not make it onto the final reconciliation list.
    Katie Shepherd, Washington Post, 24 May 2023
  • The new edition, released Friday on vinyl, CD and digitally, includes a remaster of the original album as well as a bevy of additional tracks left on the cutting-room floor, most of them never before released.
    Dallas News, 3 May 2022
  • This could leave many potential cures for various cancers on the cutting-room floor and leave young cancer scientists unable to get the financial backing theyneed to pursue innovative ideas.
    Scientific American, 28 Dec. 2021

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