cut into

• “When dough dries, sprinkle with flour, roll out flat, and cut into strips.”

  Simon & Schuster: Roseanne Archy

• “Lining both sides of the long second-floor hall were heavy wooden doors, each fitted with iron dead bolts and padlocks the size of my fist, each with a six-inch-wide slot cut into it at eye level, the opening covered by a hinged piece of metal.”

  Simon & Schuster: The Monstrumologist

• “The sunlight cut into the depths of the putrid-smelling room, and dust swirled in the air.”

  Simon & Schuster: Beneath My Mother’s Feet

• “Her blond hair had been cut into a pin-straight chin-length bob, and her skin was pale, smooth, and flawless.”

  Simon & Schuster: INNER CIRCLE

• “Harry Shaughnessy made his way down the stairs cut into the steep hill, wondering how he was going to get across Shepard Road.”

  Simon & Schuster: FALSE MERMAID

• “Bradlees, on the other hand, was able to speed up its sagging sales growth during 1999, but this came at the expense of its financial performance, because promotions and other customer enticements cut into profits.”

  Simon & Schuster: THE NEW MARKET LEADERS

• “Ptolemy Alexander Helios and Cleopatra Selene were putting a jigsaw puzzle together, a scene of flowers, grass, and butterflies painted on thin wood that some master craftsman with a fretsaw had cut into small, irregular pieces.”

  Simon & Schuster: Antony and Cleopatra

• “Sharp peaks cut into the starry sky, and down in the valley the mag-levs solar collectors glimmered with reflected starlight.”

  Simon & Schuster: Extras

• “I went with a tender piece of steak, cut into strips and laid across a bowl of fresh greens, accompanied by a glass of light white wine I adhere to the somewhat illogical practice of not drinking red when driving, and followed by a Genovese dessert called scarpitantina, a sweet vanilla cake with cream between its layers, a touch of chocolate, and powdered sugar on top.”

  Simon & Schuster: The Italian Summer

• “Home also was this room at the top of the house, cut into the roof, a room with a glass door opening onto a tiny balcony where I can stand on a clear night and look up at the stars and see the lights of Rosslare Harbour and the single flashes of Tuskar Rock Lighthouse and the faint, comforting line where the night sky becomes the dark sea.”

  Simon & Schuster: The Empty Family

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