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Example sentences for "cutting down"

  • The cramp-bone may be extracted, if asked for, by cutting down at 4, and passing the knife under in a semicircle to 5.

  • If the demands are more than can be supplied at the first opening, additional slices may be obtained by cutting down to the blade-bone, marked 3, on each side.

  • On cutting down in such a case, the hernial tumour may appear to be lodged within the tunica vaginalis; whereas the bowel is actually placed exterior to the tunic and behind it.

  • The tumour was high in the inguinal region: on cutting down upon it, the tendon of the external oblique was found to cover it completely.

  • Execution is not always presently upon the sentence given; for, after that, a convenient time is thought on, and then is cutting down.

  • The death or cutting down of such men will be dreadful.

  • The death, or cutting down of such men, will be dreadful.

  • Your muscles have very little power in Cutting quite horizontally, but very great power in Cutting down on the ball.

  • Mr. Bradshaw follows the ball and cuts very late, cutting down.

  • The whole of the convicts were now employed in cutting down trees, and clearing the ground near the houses, in order to give more room for building others.

  • Most of the labourers were now employed in cutting down, gathering, and cleaning the Indian corn, a vast quantity of which was destroyed by the parroquets, although men were constantly employed in beating them off with long poles.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    accompanied them; against her; chaise longue; cutting down; cutting edge; cutting instrument; cutting machine; cutting them; cutting tool; dear papa; forced labor and sexual; full house; keeping close; know good and evil; make life; not very; religious exercises; shall gain what many men desire; she hurried; steadily increasing; structural reforms; that state; this very; true porcelain; went off; would start