VERB
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move quickly to another scene or focus when filming
`cut away now!' the director shouted -
remove by cutting off or away
cut away the branch that sticks out
How To Use cut away In A Sentence
- Some cut away after a while to cookery programmes and manga cartoons. Times, Sunday Times
- Cut away the flesh of each mango from its stone in four segments. Times, Sunday Times
- Hundreds of civilians helped in the search, using hacksaws to cut away metal sheeting trapping survivors and ropes to pull bodies from the wreckage, witnesses said.
- Cut away the old foliage of Lenten lilies and epimediums so that you can see the flowers properly before the new leaves are produced.
- Cut away, children! The motorcade is starting.
- No one, as far as I know, has ever before cut away the wing of a submerged big jet.
- Old plants can have all their leaves cut away to leave the flower stems naked and proud. Times, Sunday Times
- Use a sharp knife to cut away the spare pastry.
- As an auxiliary to the bilging by boring, the masts are often cut away under the pretence of making her "lie easy," or to prevent "thumping."
- the rotted wood had to be cut away
