This would foil the devil: this would make him say, I must not deal with this man thus; for then I put a sword into his hand to cut off my head.
And "because he hath despised the word of the Lord, and hath broken his commandment, that soul shall utterly be cut off: his iniquity shall be upon him.
Of which certain it is, that thou doest (as much as lieth in thee) cut off, and in some sort violently take somewhat away, as often as thou art displeased with anything that happeneth.
A branch is cut off by another, but he that hates and is averse, cuts himself off from his neighbour, and knows not that at the same time he divides himself from the whole body, or corporation.
Many of those things that trouble and straiten thee, it is in thy power to cut off, as wholly depending from mere conceit and opinion; and then thou shalt have room enough.
The same thing happened the second and third night: so the king ordered his head to be cut off.
I expected after Atlanta fell to occupy that place permanently, and to cut off Lee's army from the West by way of the road running through Augusta to Atlanta and thence south-west.
These movements of the enemy gave me the idea that Lee was about to make the attempt to get to, or towards, Fredericksburg to cut off my supplies.
We would then have Lee so surrounded that his supplies would be cut off entirely, making it impossible for him to support his army.
Johnston, finding his retreat likely to be cut off, fell back to his fortified position at Resaca, where he was attacked on the afternoon of May 15th.
The way mounted straight, through the rock, in such direction[1] that I cut off in front of me the rays of the sun which was already low.
To cut off, as a horse's mane, so that the part left shall stand upright.
To stay behind while others withdraw; to be left after others have been removed or destroyed; to be left after a number or quantity has been subtracted or cut off; to be left as not included or comprised.
And this command we gave him because to the last man should these people be cut off at morning.
Because he hath despised the word of the LORD, and hath broken his commandment, that soul shall utterly be cut off; his iniquity shall be upon him.
I could not indeed hide from myself that in the course of a few days my retreat to the Depot would unavoidably be cut off if rain should not fall.
However, we were now approaching that part of the river at which the flats (extensive enough) are intersected by numerous creeks and lagoons, so that our approach to the Murray was likely to be cut off altogether.
May his posterity be cut off; in one generation may his name be blotted out.
For evildoers shall be cut off: but they that wait upon the Lord, they shall inherit the land.
The horn of Moab is cut off, and his arm is broken, saith the Lord.
My life is cut off, as by a weaver: whilst I was yet but beginning, he cut me off: from morning even to night thou wilt make an end of me.
Nephi 4:4 4 For the Lord God hath said that: Inasmuch as ye shall keep my commandments ye shall prosper in the land; and inasmuch as ye will not keep my commandments ye shall be cut off from my presence.
Then he cut off a piece of wood, and cast it in thither: and the iron swam.
Now Holofernes, in going round about, found that the fountain which supplied them with water, ran through an aqueduct without the city on the south side: and he commanded their aqueduct to be cut off.
And have taken to wife Ruth, the Moabitess, the wife of Mahalon, to raise up the name of the deceased in his inheritance lest his name be cut off, from among his family and his brethren and his people.
So he sent a man before: and before that messenger came, he said to the ancients: Do you know that this son of a murderer hath sent to cut off my head?
Therefore I said to the children of Israel: you shall not eat the blood of any flesh at all, because the life of the flesh is in the blood, and whosoever eateth it, shall be cut off.
Even Ah Chow remained expressionless as a mummy, though it was his head that was to be cut off.
His head was to be cut off by the guillotine that was being erected on the plantation.
Then he spoke: "Is Schemmer going to cut off my head?
Heaven forefend that he should be cut off, but meseemeth that we have no right to destroy the evidence that may one day be a precious thing to the kingdom at large.
Little used to poetry, these lines made the good man's eyes fill with tears as he looked at the two goodly young men about to be cut off so early--one indeed guilty, but the victim of an iniquitous act of deliberate treachery.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "cut off" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
