cutting off

How To Use cutting off In A Sentence

• At this time we could hear and see the German half-track vehicles entering Lamia, thus effectively cutting off our retreat in that direction even if we had transport. Alan Glass
• That was before the Ghezouba Dam was built on the Yangtze River in the early 1980s, cutting off the sturgeon's migratory path, just as it did for the critically endangered Chinese paddlefish .
• The fallen tree pulled down electricity and telephone lines, plunging the entire area into darkness and cutting off land line communications.
• Fusarium wilt kills plants by cutting off nutrient supply from the roots and is one of the biggest dangers facing lupin production in Europe and Russia.
• They contend that corporations are taking advantage of public resources and subsidies while driving up the price of water and cutting off the poorest users.
• Around the district railway and traffic bridges were washed away or damaged, cutting off the district.
• This is done by cutting off all fruited canes at the base and untangling new growth and tying it to supports against the wall or fence.
• This thing around my neck is searing and blistering my skin black and cutting off circulation to my brain and life-giving oxygen to my lungs.
• In coordinated attacks, gunmen in armored cars and equipped with grenade launchers fought army troops this week and attempted to trap some of them in two military bases by cutting off access and blocking highways, a new tactic by Mexico's organized criminals. POLITICAL HOT TOPICS: April 2, 2010
• Libya has also supported British policy, cutting off oil supplies to the beleaguered regime.