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“Around him, the city was utterly silent, wrapped in its cotton-wool wadding of mists, like something set adrift, cut off from all space and all time.”
“Of the Gentile Church before admission to Christianity, he says its members had been "strangers to the covenants of the promise", consequently cut off from all hope.”
“When Carter was unhappy with a particular senior aide, he could treat that individual quite coldlyin others presencebut he didnt cut off personal contact as Nixon had done.”
“She was cut off by an even louder tirade of expletives that would have made even a Nausicaan blush.”
“Among Dr. Waguih William IsHak's advice: avoid road rage at all costs, apologize profusely to anyone you accidentally cut off in traffic, be sure to leave for your destination with a full tank of gas and a cell phone.”
“He even held athletic games for his men to distract them from the fact that they were cut off from retreat to the south by thousands of Sogdian warriors.”
“When one of them fired at me I took a dive into the field, and of course your"—he visibly cut off the word damn out of respect for a lady's presence—"your San Francisco fields are more like taking a dive over a cliff.”
“They cut off Persia, Aria, and Drangiana from Bactria to the north and the valley of the Indus River to the east.”
“Even as he struck, the satrap Spithridates now charged Alexander from behind and raised his sword to strike a death blow when suddenly Black Cleitus threw himself at the Persian lord and cut off his arm cleanly at the shoulder.”
“KERRY: They had personally raped, cut off ears, cut off heads …”
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These user-created lists contain the word ‘cut off’.
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RELI - Genesis
Protagonists and relevant words in the Book of Creation (Source: King James Bible)
Laban, circumcise, beget, Esau, Rebekah, speckle, Sodom, Pharaoh, Canaanite, Canaan, Jacob, Lot and 1286 more...
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ENVI - Collocations ABC
An extract from the "Zold Tolmacs" project, a HU-EN environmental dictionary compiled by Robert Gulyas in 2000.
AA battery, aa lava, aapa mire, abandon the project, abandon the sewer..., abandoned car, abandoned dyke, abandoned farm, abandoned field, abandoned industr..., abandoned industr..., abandoned land and 5386 more...
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phrasal verbs: OFF
work off, laugh off, kick off, write off, tell off, sleep off, clock off, ease off, rattle off, tick off, fall off, dash off and 35 more...
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my dictionary
able, abnormally, abroad, absent, abstract, acceptable, acceptance, access, accessible, accession, according to, account and 4551 more...
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OM1 Lesson 5
cook, starving, pasta, spaghetti, sauce, tomato, green pepper, feeling, actually, better, flattery, trouble and 11 more...
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