How to Use cutoff in a Sentence

cutoff

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  • The cutoff for new applications is next Wednesday.
  • With the cutoff now just over $1 billion, five dropped off this year.
    — Jane Ho, Forbes, 19 Apr. 2023
  • The cutoff date for the survey was March 20, about 10 days after the bank failures.
    — Matt Grossman, WSJ, 29 Mar. 2023
  • Even with that cutoff, there were still a wide range of options.
    — Bobbi Dempsey, Popular Mechanics, 15 Feb. 2023
  • Meanwhile, Martinez raced to a two-out double on a ball cutoff in the gap in the ninth.
    — Evan Grant, Dallas News, 13 Aug. 2023
  • The start of the regular season may not be the cutoff in this scenario.
    — Jarrett Bell, USA TODAY, 5 Sep. 2023
  • Before that, the state had a two-year cutoff for adults to bring forth their cases in court.
    — Doha Madani, NBC News, 15 June 2023
  • The mom of two styled it with a white tank top, black cutoff shorts, and high-top Converse sneakers.
    — Taylor Jean Stephan, Peoplemag, 26 Oct. 2023
  • The lab explanation did note that the IOM's cutoff was 20.
    — Christie Aschwanden, Scientific American, 19 Dec. 2023
  • The Suns were making a push, and a loss would have left the Lakers on the wrong side of the cutoff for making the play-in tournament.
    — Helene Elliott, Los Angeles Times, 23 Mar. 2023
  • Many houses have a water cutoff on the outside of their homes.
    — Heloise, Arkansas Online, 1 Nov. 2022
  • The quarterback with the black cutoff T-shirt and bleach-blond hair is leading a huddle.
    — Kevin Reynolds, The Salt Lake Tribune, 31 Oct. 2022
  • Oregon is 12 strokes back of leader Georgia Tech and three back of 15th place, the cutoff line after the first three rounds.
    — oregonlive, 27 May 2023
  • The House also wants to raise the threshold to $2 million, but the tax would apply only above that cutoff.
    — Larry Edelman, BostonGlobe.com, 9 June 2023
  • That left him $300 million shy of the Forbes cutoff when the magazine unveiled the list Tuesday.
    — Matt Egan, CNN, 4 Oct. 2023
  • Shearling is chic and will go great well into the seasonal shift to cutoff shorts.
    — Town & Country, 13 Apr. 2023
  • There’s a young Kevin Bacon wearing a ringer tee and short denim cutoffs.
    — Christian Allaire, Vogue, 25 Oct. 2023
  • That would also mean areas further west wouldn't see much snow at all due to a sharp cutoff.
    — Rebecca Loroff, Journal Sentinel, 23 Mar. 2023
  • Heidi Klum is beating the heat this summer in her tiny denim cutoffs — with a twist!
    — Averi Kremposky, Peoplemag, 24 July 2023
  • If the saw has a low threshold for thermal cutoff to protect the battery and circuitry, that will shut the saw off.
    — Roy Berendsohn, Popular Mechanics, 30 Nov. 2022
  • The video opens by showing off the artwork on the star’s backside while she is dressed in a yellow and white printed crop top and cutoff white denim shorts.
    — Alexis Jones, Peoplemag, 2 Sep. 2023
  • Their tops were jersey-inspired and paired with cutoff denim jorts.
    — Kerane Marcellus, Essence, 15 Nov. 2023
  • This privilege came to an end anyway when Hisham and Kinnan turned 16, the cutoff age by Israeli law.
    — Rozina Ali, New York Times, 28 Feb. 2024
  • Then, they were spurned by perhaps the next best option just before Tuesday’s 3 p.m. cutoff.
    — Jack Harris, Los Angeles Times, 1 Aug. 2023
  • Elsewhere in the complex, Sarah Walters, 41, arrived in flip-flops and cutoff shorts to assess the damage to her mother’s house.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 30 Sep. 2022
  • There’s the feeling that Stessel maintains the optimism of her cutoff childhood with her here.
    — Liana Satenstein, Vogue, 24 Dec. 2022
  • With the new cutoff at the end of the eighth inning in some ballparks, there is now just one inning left of play before fans could be heading for the exits and getting on the road.
    — Jeremy Cluff, The Arizona Republic, 11 Apr. 2023
  • The bill is more restrictive than Graham’s previous bills, which had a cutoff of 20 weeks.
    — Steven Lemongello, Orlando Sentinel, 14 Sep. 2022
  • At least with percentages there would be a little bit of unknown with that cutoff number.
    — Kyle Neddenriep, The Indianapolis Star, 13 Apr. 2023
  • The Mulholland Drive star wore a white blouse with jean cutoff shorts for the outing, with a green jacket draped over her shoulders and a brown bag hanging at her left hip.
    — Tommy McArdle, Peoplemag, 12 June 2023

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